Hi,

Thanks for helping.

There is a RED Circle with an Exclamation Point in the task tray.

Clicked on it, entered root password, then MCC Software Management
program loads, I accept process to update, then get the following
error message:

k, so, the question is, How do I update My media database?

Thanks,
FirstBorn

Mandriva 2008.0

Change/add a mirror.That should do unless they really don't have some files in the database.

Hi alan_ri,

Thanks.

I just went to the Easy URPMI site and it seemed to have
fixed it when I went to run the updates.
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

Thanks,
Christopher

When you use the Mandriva GUI to apply updates it automatically updates the media database, however when the mirror sites are being upodated they can sometimes get out of sync. This is because the updates are not atomic. In other words, the system does not update the list of files present and the actual directory contents at the exact same moment. For this reason, you will sometimes see this error. It will automagically go away on its own if you wait a bit and try again when this is the problem.

It is also possible that the Mandriva team makes an error, and the files on the mirror and the ones in the database do not match for this reason. The solution in this case is to wait a bit longer ;-)

(i.e. The Mandriva team will fix the error)

When one is not using the GUI tools (which are merely a wrapper for urpmi and urpmq scripts, etc) you can do, as root:

The above will update all the data for all of the repositories you have configured.

See also: