Mageia

[viking60]

Server has been down since yesterday.

Main afected services are :

build system
sympa mailing lists
bugzilla
forum
svn
identity
wiki
main mirror
mirrors database

[dedanna1029]

Old equipment for a new distro's servers? Forgot to pay the ISP bill? Forgot to use a few UPSes?

Whatever. It's not good any way you go. They're still not back up yet. The bill is getting even more huge...

[viking60]

Just upgraded to Mageia2 today it went pretty painless via CLI
su

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urpmi.removemedia -a

etc. etc.

Rebooted and could not find any differences on the surface but as I understand it they have been working a lot with the installation media. At the moment it takes an eternity to resolve web pages in both opera and FF though even if the ping seems OK...
The strange thing is that the Mageia pages are loading fast While bjoernvold.com and the biggest newspaper in Norway vg.no are taking forever.
I guess they don't like us
Or me having played arround to much with the connections (the most probable cause )
To find out what packages are available on the different versions they have made this db http://madb.org/ based on http://sophie.zarb.org/
Nice!

[viking60]

Just checked: Looks like I still am on Mageia1 - strange
Trying from runlevel 3.....
1

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urpmi.removemedia -a

2

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urpmi.addmedia --distrib http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/2/i586

I tried this method since the standard suggestion did not work and at this point I discovered the advantage of reading !
In the instructions here
The suggestion is to do a

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# urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.1.$ARCH.list'

And that does not bring about much changes for the cutters and pasters among us. I bet altering the 1 to a 2 would work wonders

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# urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.2.$ARCH.list'

Still; on an upgrade page it is stupid to suggest it like this (well not if the main intent is to fish over Mandriva people, but they should document as if they were an independent distro - at least that will be my defence )
Anyway it is updating now after I did a:

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urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto

I will be back and release you from the intolerable suspension when I have rebooted.....
.......
Doesn't look to good though - It looks like it is really stuck on preparing chkconfig (task 71 of 1996) it has been hanging there for "ages"
And after 30 min I am declaring this a failed attempt.
Having another go...

[viking60]

Näh the installation is fubared. I will have to install from scratch.
Installing with the iso now; keeping my old /home......
Nice Art work.....
And the installation went fine. I installed the Gnome version and Mageia comes with Gnome3. The shell will not work in VB so I will have to settle for fallback mode.
Repos are easy to handle but I had to pick the "tainted" and non-free stuff myself - there might be good reasons for this and it does not cost to many calories.

So far everything works and Mageia seems to have matured.
Having a lot of fun with Java now.
Installed Oracles rpm package and symlinked it in the mozilla/plugins directory and installed the flash plugin with MCC. After restarting it works in Firefox but not in Opera.
After a restart I got this error:
There was a problem loading
«NotificationAreaAppletFactory::NotificationArea»
Do you want to remove it from your installation
Sure I want to - who likes problems?

Installing Chromium and there both flash and java worked right out of the box If they were not spying so much I would declare this the fastest and best Browser. After a while Firefox stoped working and became semi-transparent and could not be closed - fact none of my open windows could. Maybe to litle memory in my VB
After a restart we are back to normal.
I noticed that Firefox came with a load of languages so I turned them off.

OK going to install a lamp server now.....
Installing task-lamp-php....
starting the httpd daemon and mysqld
after that I did my usual

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mysql_secure_installation

And filled out the prompts like I always do
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/MySQL

And that went smooth and fast The interesting part though is that Mageia is using Maria DB NOT Mysql - cheky
But I am curious about it because it is the founders of Mysql that are behind it - and they say it is even better!

Time to check out phpmyadmin now that has been installed by the task.
I logg in and everthing works right out of the box.
Impressively smooth and painless - Good show Mageia! I am even willing to refrain from commenting the placement of the files in /var/www/html so I won't say that I do not like it ( I will just change it).

[dedanna1029]

Keep in mind that if you are using urpmi --auto-update or --auto-select, you may have to do a second pass to get the kernel and other packages in. I learned that the hard way with Mandriva. In particular with the kernel, I always ended up updating it manually by urpmi-ing it down directly. Happened with two of my upgrades on Mandriva, actually.

What I used to do is use urpmi --auto-update first, then I'd do a second pass with --auto-select, then I'd search the repos for the highest kernel, and install it manually via urpmi (if it wasn't installed already).

[dedanna1029]

And yeah -- that artwork is better than I've seen in a long time anywhere.

[jkerr82508]

And yeah -- that artwork is better than I've seen in a long time anywhere.

Unfortunately, it was purloined:

http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/05/31/ba ... d-credits/

Jim

[viking60]

Oh boy - how very embarrasing. I guess it was originally discovered here:
http://pr09studio.deviantart.com/#/d51s1hk
I am glad the right person got the credit in the end, and that he accepted the use of the Artwork. He probably got more PR through this too.

[dedanna1029]

Oh wow. Sad. :\

[viking60]

The forums discussions over at Mageia are truly hopeless.
Optimistically dedicated members suggest improvements and mostly it ends in some likes. likes not discussion . always with the result that nothing is happening.

After a year or so you might be asked if there is filed a bug/request report for it.
Now there is a slight irony in the fact that suggestions made in the forum regarding the improvement of the forum, cannot be handled in the forum. The organisation cannot be all that good.
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic. ... 5&start=25
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2919
There is no use in participating. And apparently no interest for improvements. It almost looks like there is a personal prestige behind doing nothing.

[dedanna1029]

Really, really weird... *singing Twilight Zone theme