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Hi all,

On a fresh Mageia 5 install, after installing the operating system, I went into the MCC and went to configure media. It let me set a mirror, so I picked one in the US. Everything seems to be working fine, but I am seeing this error now:

unable to access medium "core release"

I am getting this error message after installing packages or trying to update the media. I've already tried removing all the media and picking a different mirror, but I'm still seeing it.

What could be going on here?

Please show the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

You might also still have the installation media configured as repo and might want to disable/remove that: http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/ ... media.html

Hi Doktor5000,

Output is:

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Core Release /mnt/hd/x86_64/media/core
Nonfree Release /mnt/hd/x86_64/media/nonfree
Core Release (distrib1) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/release
Core Updates (distrib3) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/updates
Nonfree Release (distrib11) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree Updates (distrib13) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates
Tainted Release (distrib21) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/tainted/release
Tainted Updates (distrib23) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/tainted/updates
Core 32bit Release (distrib31) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/core/release
Core 32bit Updates (distrib32) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/core/updates
Nonfree 32bit Release (distrib36) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree 32bit Updates (distrib37) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/nonfree/updates
Tainted 32bit Release (distrib41) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/tainted/release
Tainted 32bit Updates (distrib42) http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/tainted/updates

I see those top two repos--is that the problem? Do I just need to disable those in the media selection? I just realized that I've never installed from the actual install media before, always livedvd, so maybe that's why I've never seen this before!

steveh wrote:I see those top two repos--is that the problem? Do I just need to disable those in the media selection?

That is correct, just disable the

steveh wrote:Core Release /mnt/hd/x86_64/media/core
Nonfree Release /mnt/hd/x86_64/media/nonfree

and you should be ok

That worked!

Thank you benmc and doktor5000!

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