[Mageia-dev] Repo down: repository fallback by default...

Mon Nov 26 13:49:13 CET 2012

2012/11/26 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>:
+> Hi,
+>
+>
+> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>
+> wrote:
+>>
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> I am trying to install some software and get the error:
+>> <<
+>>  L'installation a échoué, certains fichiers sont manquants :
+>>
+>> rsync://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/media/tainted/release/mencoder-1.0-1.rc4.0.r34578.9.mga2.tainted.x86_64.rpm
+>> Vous devriez mettre à jour votre base de données urpmi.
+>>
+>> Essayer de continuer néanmoins ?
+>> >>
+>> (basically the rsync failed)
+>>
+>> So I guess the repo is down, hopefully temporarily. I went to the
+>> "configure media sources" UI and "add a specific media mirror" (was using
+>> the $MIRRORLIST default until now).
+>>
+>> [Side-note: the other mirror in Japan also had faulty tainted repos. I
+>> wonder if there is a problem with Japan politics maybe about tainted
+>> softwares?]
+>>
+>
+> About my side note, I realize today that Japanese servers seem still down
+> (or "again"? Since I used alternate servers since this problem I had weeks
+> ago, I don't know). Have Mageia's Japanese contributor abandonned Mageia?
+> Thanks.
+
+The mirror is not down, you are using a wrong address. The correct
+address for the Mageia mirror is
+ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/mageia/distrib/2/
+(in your link the /Linux/ is missing)
+
+-- 
+wobo
+