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using the command

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urpmi --auto-update --aria2 --auto

I get

invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/x86 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/x86 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/x86 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/x86 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/x86 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/x86 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/i58 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/i58 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/i58 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/i58 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/i58 ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/i58 ... media_info)

Just now

Hi canadaist.

you could try another mirror- manually adding, just choose from the drop-down list.
I have found the FR ....http or ftp....coffee.... ones most reliable. (sorry for the cryptic description of the mirror, I am not at a Mageia system at the moment) .
just untick your existing ones and ticking the new ones.

regards

Of course thanks.

To whomever might know at Mageia,
I would still like a note on why the above happened.

We don't have control over the external mirrors, might be that it's currently syncing ... just try again later.

FWIW, you can check the status of the mirrors here: http://mirrors.mageia.org/status
and you can search and filter for mirrors here: http://mirrors.mageia.org/

I am not sure this is a mirror issue. I have over 100 Mageia 5 boxes in a lab and they are all getting the same error that canadaist is seeing.

I use the command and get the following error:

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urpmi --update --auto --auto-update
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/release/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64/media/debug/core/release/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/updates/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64/media/debug/core/updates/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/release/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/i586/media/core/release/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/i586/media/core/updates/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/i586/media/nonfree/release/media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/i586/media/nonfree/updates/media_info)


If I remove all media and try and add media with the following command I get the following error:

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urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist
unable to parse media.cfg
unable to add medium


If I try and add media with the following command it all works:

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urpmi.addmedia --distrib http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64/

Notice that the url listed is the same mirror as the one above that was giving errors, so that mirror is working fine. When running tcpdump while running "urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist" I notice that it talks to ns0.ovh.net.https. When I go to the address in a web browser it redirects to ssl0.ovh.net/fr which looks like a webmail page. It is in french which I do not speak but it does not look like it is getting a list of mirrors to add. What is --mirrorlist suppose to contact to get the mirror to use?

Any ideas on how to fix this without having to delete and re-add media by hand? 100 machines is a lot to do.

Where does /var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache come from? When I remove the entries for ftp://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64, http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/5/x86_64, and http://mageia.balinor.net/distrib/5/x86_64 and run the update command it also works. The only problem is that it keeps adding them back after some time. Is there a way to tell it to ignore the above mirrors?

I just installed Mageia 6 sta1 on a machine and chose to do updates during the install. It failed so I finished the install and used mcc to add media. It failed also. I had to edit the mirrors.cache file to remove the two mirrors mentioned above to get it to work. This means that anybody who installs Mageia and adds mirrors that is closest to the two broken mirrors will not be able to add media. I would suggest that those mirrors get taken out of the mirrorlist until they work. New people will get frustrated with the inability to install application and do updates.

cb wrote:... This means that anybody who installs Mageia and adds mirrors that is closest to the two broken mirrors will not be able to add media. I would suggest that those mirrors get taken out of the mirrorlist until they work.

Thanks for reporting that. Can you please name the broken mirrors so we can report them to our sysadmins.

They are the two that were mentioned in the post above. Thanks for looking into this.

http://mageia.webconquest.com/
http://mageia.balinor.net/

please contact maat he is the sysadmin

plspls wrote:please contact maat he is the sysadmin

Sorry i'm not the sysadmin. Please make sure your informations are correct before asserting something as if it were true. That will upset people who know it's false and mislead people who don't.

if I click on "the team" link at the bottom of this page I see you listed as administrator

I understand it is not the case now but this page is misleading and should be corrected

in any case I believe maat knows who is the sysadmin and will transmit him the info

also please note that I am an unpaid volunteer (albeit the most prominent in those forums) and mistake can happen

plspls wrote:if I click on "the team" link at the bottom of this page I see you listed as administrator

I understand it is not the case now but this page is misleading and should be corrected

You have confused forum administrator and systems administrator. Yet after just receiving my warning about asserting something as if it were true you go on with the same line.

You wanted to know when you do something offensive ? THIS is offensive.

plspls wrote:also please note that I am an unpaid volunteer (albeit the most prominent in those forums) and mistake can happen

I already answered to that claim about being "the most prominent" user of the forum. Again you'll have to prove this on the long run. Please stop with this claim which mislead people about your real status in this forum.

This is the very reason you received the warning from Isadora.

You have hi-jacked a thread and gone completely off-topic. Seems to me you are just trying to just for the sake of posting.

well just a simple mistake this happens no worries

I posted more than 70 messages if one of them is wrong no big worries

only a small percentage

plspls wrote:I posted more than 70 messages if one of them is wrong no big worries

only a small percentage

Well, none of those 70 forum posts or private messages contained any substantial information whatsoever ...
This makes you the most active spammer on the forum.

cb wrote:They are the two that were mentioned in the post above. Thanks for looking into this.

http://mageia.webconquest.com/
http://mageia.balinor.net/

Bugreport # 18674.