urpmi quit working

m_a_b · 12-22-2005, 04:51 PM

I have Mandrake 10.0 installed from several months ago. I have been booting up in it for a week or two now with no problems, but noticed that the mdkonline applet quit working. I knew that I needed to update, but I went to the console and updated my souces and then did urpmi --auto-select. After it was finished, I noticed that several packages were not installed, all from the same source, so I changed the source, updated it, and tried again. Now, it seems to just hang up with no errors. I left the console open just to make sure it was not just slow and still nothing. I am a newbie and I don't know what to do!!

I don't even know where to start troubleshooting this, but until I get it fixed, I guess I am pretty much stuck with what I have!

Any Ideas?

radioradio · 12-23-2005, 08:08 AM

Well I don't know if this is of **any** help but ... I messed around with the sources, and could see packages needed installing, but they did not get downloaded.

I rebooted several times, tried updating several times and eventually the applet started working again.
Maybe if you try it again in a day or two it will have sorted the sources out.
I sure know **I** did not fix it so I can only conclude it worked things out itself.

I would be interested to know if **time alone** fixes it ..

Cheers..

m_a_b · 12-27-2005, 09:30 AM

well, I was hoping time would fix it, but it hasn't yet. I removed my sources from the console and added new ones from Easy Urpmi and updated them in the console - it still didn't fix the applet. In fact, it still didn't fix the console urpmi either - it still freezes when I do urpmi --auto-select.

reddazz · 12-27-2005, 03:07 PM

Try,

Code:

#urpmi --auto-select --auto --wget

Keep trying different mirrors

tkedwards · 12-27-2005, 04:01 PM

I think Mandrake 10.0 is no longer supported by updates so that may be the problem - there simply is nothing to update.

m_a_b · 12-27-2005, 06:44 PM

oh... there was plenty to update! I had not booted into it in about a year! It also listed and tried to update several packages, got halfway done, then quit.

tkedwards · 12-27-2005, 06:46 PM

Post your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

m_a_b · 12-28-2005, 12:13 AM

Code:

Installation\ CD\ 1\ (x86)\ (cdrom1) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS {
  hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz
  with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist1.cz
  removable: /dev/hdc
  key-ids: 70771ff3
}

Installation\ CD\ 2\ (x86)\ (cdrom2) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2 {
  hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz
  with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
  removable: /dev/hdc
  key-ids: 70771ff3
}

Installation\ CD\ 3\ (x86)\ (cdrom3) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3 {
  hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 3 (x86) (cdrom3).cz
  with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist3.cz
  removable: /dev/hdc
  key-ids: 70771ff3
}

Installation\ CD\ 4\ (x86)\ (cdrom4) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS4 {
  hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 4 (x86) (cdrom4).cz
  with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist4.cz
  removable: /dev/hdc
  key-ids: 70771ff3
}

plf-free ftp://ftp.univ-orleans.fr/logiciel-libre/plf/mandrake/free/10.0 {
  hdlist: hdlist.plf-free.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.plf-free
  key-ids: caba22ae
}

main ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS {
  hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
  key-ids: 26752624
}

contrib ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/contrib/i586 {
  hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
  with_hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
  key-ids: 26752624
}

jpackage ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/contrib/jpackage/i586 {
  hdlist: hdlist.jpackage.cz
  with_hdlist: ../../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist3.cz
  key-ids: c431416d
}

club ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/testing/Mandrakeclub/10.0 {
  hdlist: hdlist.club.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.club
}

tkedwards · 12-28-2005, 04:41 AM

Well AFAICT there is no update repository setup in your urpmi.cfg - you seem to have the CDs, PLF-free, main, contrib, jpackage and a club testing source. Hmm.. I just went to easyurpmi and there's no updates repositories listed for 10.0 - its been a while since I used 10.0 but I thought it was always the same as the others - the updates for main came in an 'updates' repository? It does for 9.2 and 10.1 and up.

reddazz · 12-28-2005, 05:13 AM

Are the sources for 10 community or 10 official?

m_a_b · 12-28-2005, 08:25 AM

community I think. I don't know that it really matters at this point anymore. I think I am going to put a fresh install of either Suse 10 or Mandriva 06 in the very near future. This version is kinda old and it has a bunch of webserver apps (apache, coldfusion, JRE, etc) that I don't use anymore, so I think it would be easier to just install a fresh version than to try to update and uninstall stuff - especially since the Mandriva Live CD detected all my hardware correctly

At this point, I am just curious why it quit.