From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

I ran my usual update shell, and it pulled down rpms for
nss, lib64nww3, and firefox but not from the usual source.


The source was not a website I remember seeing before, and
a check of the shells output on what it had done said it
had failed to connect to a half-dozen or more usual sites
it can pull from.

Is mirrors.cicku.me a new mageia source ?

There was a power outage about 3 hours ago, and things
may have been scrambled when I restarted my computer.

Any ideas before I start trying to deal with things
I have not experienced for years and have forgotten ?

Cheers!

jim b.
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From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

Jim wrote:

Is mirrors.cicku.me a new mageia source ?

I don't know about 'new' but it is a mirror.

https://mirrors.mageia.org/status

http://mirrors.cicku.me/mageia/

More about the domain:
https://status.cicku.me/
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Mike Easter
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From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

On 9/8/26 00:41, Jim wrote:

Any ideas before I start trying to deal with things
I have not experienced for years and have forgotten ?

I dread the "how did I do that back then" sinking feeling

Using CM drake something to set up graphics card
couldn't do that now

switch to run 3 to install the nvidia driver which fell over because
the kernel headers weren't installed

So much is automated now. It would require enormous Googling to locate
the old howto's

currently I update from 'princeton' after checking the status page
I got caught once with a non updated repo despite magapplet flagging an update. I had to reinstall to recover. A large chunk of the afternoon
went by
Always check "status' it's bookmarked now
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faeychild
Running kde on 6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 14:41:00 -0000 (UTC), Jim wrote:

I ran my usual update shell, and it pulled down rpms for
nss, lib64nww3, and firefox but not from the usual source.

The source was not a website I remember seeing before, and
a check of the shells output on what it had done said it
had failed to connect to a half-dozen or more usual sites
it can pull from.

Is mirrors.cicku.me a new mageia source ?

There was a power outage about 3 hours ago, and things
may have been scrambled when I restarted my computer.

Any ideas before I start trying to deal with things
I have not experienced for years and have forgotten ?

Cheers!

jim b.

I am pleased to hear mirrors.cicku.me is a
valid mirror.

After several hours, I tried again and all worked
well for my workstation and laptop.

It seems all is well.

Thanks for information provided.

Cheers!

jim b.
--
UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely
expects users to be computer friendly.
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From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

On 10/8/26 00:47, Jim wrote:

I am pleased to hear mirrors.cicku.me is a
valid mirror.

After several hours, I tried again and all worked
well for my workstation and laptop.

It seems all is well.

Thanks for information provided.

Cheers!

jim b.

This can all be unsettling.
Today I decided to locate and check my MAG_9 install stick

Then I recreated it to be sure
The boot order in the motherboard bios was an education
I's been so long I'd forgotten all of it
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faeychild
Running kde on 6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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