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I was attempting to update the 64-bit installation, and encountered several problems (I needed to add the nfs-utils). When I attempted to add the Updates for the media in the Configure Media menu, I was presented with this error:

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Unable to add medium, errors reported:

..retreiving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 19
unable to access the distribution medium (no media.cfg file found)

Medium:distrb ()

I checked the server, and found:

ns3.IT-Security-inc.com root
[/root] locate media.cfg
/etc/urpmi/mediacfg.d/Official-3-x86_64/media.cfg

Any suggestions on how to proceed from here?

I've read the forum posting https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6627&p=42864&hilit=configure+media#p42864 but this relates to reporting a bug more than resolving the issue.

media.cfg refers to the file on the mirror.

Can you please show output of

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urpmq --dump

Absolutely!

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[/root] urpmq --dump
"Core Release" cdrom://x86_64/media/core
"Nonfree Release" cdrom://x86_64/media/nonfree
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Release2" media/core/release
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Release Debug" media/debug/core/release
--update --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Updates" media/core/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Updates Debug" media/debug/core/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Updates Testing" media/core/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Updates Testing Debug" media/debug/core/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Backports" media/core/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Backports Debug" media/debug/core/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Backports Testing" media/core/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core Backports Testing Debug" media/debug/core/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Release2" media/nonfree/release
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Release Debug" media/debug/nonfree/release
--update --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Updates" media/nonfree/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Updates Debug" media/debug/nonfree/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Updates Testing" media/nonfree/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Updates Testing Debug" media/debug/nonfree/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Backports" media/nonfree/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Backports Debug" media/debug/nonfree/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Backports Testing" media/nonfree/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree Backports Testing Debug" media/debug/nonfree/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Release" media/tainted/release
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Release Debug" media/debug/tainted/release
--update --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Updates" media/tainted/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Updates Debug" media/debug/tainted/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Updates Testing" media/tainted/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Updates Testing Debug" media/debug/tainted/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Backports" media/tainted/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Backports Debug" media/debug/tainted/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Backports Testing" media/tainted/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted Backports Testing Debug" media/debug/tainted/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core 32bit Release" media/../../i586/media/core/release
--update --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core 32bit Updates" media/../../i586/media/core/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core 32bit Updates Testing" media/../../i586/media/core/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core 32bit Backports" media/../../i586/media/core/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Core 32bit Backports Testing" media/../../i586/media/core/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree 32bit Release" media/../../i586/media/nonfree/release
--update --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree 32bit Updates" media/../../i586/media/nonfree/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree 32bit Updates Testing" media/../../i586/media/nonfree/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree 32bit Backports" media/../../i586/media/nonfree/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Nonfree 32bit Backports Testing" media/../../i586/media/nonfree/backports_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted 32bit Release" media/../../i586/media/tainted/release
--update --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted 32bit Updates" media/../../i586/media/tainted/updates
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted 32bit Updates Testing" media/../../i586/media/tainted/updates_testing
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted 32bit Backports" media/../../i586/media/tainted/backports
--mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' "Tainted 32bit Backports Testing" media/../../i586/media/tainted/backports_testing


This has me stumped.

Thank you.

Looks like a reboot, and resetting the DNS has resolved this issue. Thank you.

Well MIRRORLIST is a way to dynamically select a mirror using geolocation everytime urpmi runs.
What sounds good in theory, often selects slow or mirrors which are not that reliable.

After initial installation I'll always remove all repos and specify one mirror directly via

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sudo urpmi.removemedia -a
sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib --wget 'ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mageia/distrib/$VERSION/$ARCH'

(since Mageia2 or 3 you may have to replace $VERSION manually by the actual Mageia version, not sure currently)

And then enable nonfree and tainted repos in one go:

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sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Tainted Release" && sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Tainted Updates" && sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Nonfree Release" && sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Nonfree Updates" && sudo urpmi.update -av

You can look at the available mirrors here:
http://mirrors.mageia.org/
Some are known to cause problems more often, e.g. ibiblio and also kernel.org which had issues with its load balancer some time ago.
You could also try one of the faster european mirrors if those in your region don't give good speed/response time or cause issues more
often than once every few months.