After having worked for a while, urpmi seems to be dead again, for no immediately obvious reasons. Here is what I had done until now, way back when, before it even worked the first time:
- disabled supermount (the obvious): # supermouont -i disable - commented out the line #passive_ftp=on in /etc/wgetrc ... and this is how I had it running for a while. Now I am trying to update sources by adding a Contrib section, by doing a: # urpmi.addmedia -h Contrib ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS and here is what I get: added medium Contrib examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) + documentation (cdrom3).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) + documentation (cdrom4).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Commercial Apps CD 1 (cdrom5).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Commercial Apps CD 2 (cdrom6).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Supplementary application CD (x86) (cdrom7).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Supplementary application CD (x86) (cdrom8).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] retrieving description file of "Contrib"... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "Contrib"... retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium "Contrib" examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Contrib.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium "Contrib" unable to update medium "Contrib" I checked - and the site I am trying to use for Contrib has a file: synthesis.hdlist2.cz file, which I am hoping to find via the "-h" parameter fed into the urpmi.addmedia. On top of this, though telling me that it added the "Contrib" (see beginning of messages), this section does not appear in my # mcc --> software updates GUI. What am I doing wrong? Along the same lines - an #urpmi.update -a gives me the following: examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) + documentation (cdrom3).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) + documentation (cdrom4).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Commercial Apps CD 1 (cdrom5).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Commercial Apps CD 2 (cdrom6).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Supplementary application CD (x86) (cdrom7).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Supplementary application CD (x86) (cdrom8).cz] retrieving description file of "update_source"... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "update_source"... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00 --:--:-- 0 curl: (52) Empty reply from server 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00 --:--:-- 0 curl: (52) Empty reply from server % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00 --:--:-- 0 curl: (52) Empty reply from server ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 52 or signal 0 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium "update_source" examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] What is wrong with the above? I have not changed my update_source site ever since it was working (ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS), and I have not changed the way I connect to the Internet (same method of NAT-ing behind my Checkpoint, as I always had) ... Thx in advance for any hints ... this urpmi, combined with the problems of supermount, is becoming a major PIB :( Stef
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