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[Solved] Our other servers are down again
As you can see, our blogs are still up and running.
However, the servers hosting most of the rest of our infrastructure, like the forums, wiki and bugzilla, are not.
I assume we are under attack from bots again, but that needs to be confirmed by one of our sysadmins.
Anyway, the issue is known, we will try to update this message as soon as we know more.
1st update : a switch in the datacenter is broken, it should be replaced. A new one is on its way to Marseille. (2025-09-18, at 9:45 CEST)
2nd update: The outage is still ongoing, but we have set up a replica of the mirror list so that updates and new installations are no longer blocked (2025-09-24, at 8:00 CEST).
3rd update: After the mirrorlist replication, www.mageia.org was redirected to blog.mageia.org. (2025-09-24, 08.49 CEST)
4th update: Unfortunately, it appears that users using DNF instead of URPMI (the legacy tool in Mageia for updates) still cannot use the mirrorlist. The reason is, that DNF uses a different mirrorlist, created for downloading ISOs. That mirrorlist has not been replicated. As a workaround you can, in a terminal/konsole as root:
cp -a /etc/yum.repos.d/ /etc/yum.repos.d_original/ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ sed -i 's/^mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/' * sed -i 's/#baseurl/baseurl/' *Doing that will set https://mirrors.kernel.org as your fixed mirror, so that you can install packages again. (2025-09-24 15:57 CEST) (Edit: add the forgotten -i switch to sed, 16:20 CEST)
5th update: We were notified that the issue at the datacenter will be fixed ultimately tomorrow (2025-09-25 11:50 CEST) (Edit: put the code above in a code block instead of in a list, 13:31CEST)
6th update: We received no update from the datacenter, but we are sure there is a good reason for that. Note that they have always hosted us for free (2025-09-27 10:50 CEST).
7th update: There was certainly a good reason, they had not yet received the switch. They now expect to receive it today (2025-09-30 12:53 CEST).
8th update: According to the datacenter people, the ordered switch is now expected to arrive at the datacenter tomorrow. It will be then installed and we hope to recover the servers back to normal Monday or Tuesday at the latest (2025-10-02 16:00 CEST).
9th update: the router has been delivered in the DC and the old one replaced, last week someone went in the DC to cable stuff, but there seems to be an issue with fibers now, so our servers are still not reachable. We have not yet information on when the next operation is scheduled in
order to fix that remaining issue (2025-10-07 9:00 CEST).
10th update: The servers are back! (2025-10-07 15:00 CEST)
Mageia at the Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, France
Originally posted in our French blog by Guillaume Royer.
The Capitole du Libre is one of the biggest events in France’s free software community. It will take place on November 15 and 16. Registration is required, but admission is free. Many representatives of the free software community will be in attendance.
The Capitole du Libre also features:
- Conferences…
- Workshops
- Round table discussions
- Lan Parties (network gaming)
There will also be food trucks for foodies and an association village.
Our friend Dtux has reserved a spot for Mageia to be represented at this major event. If you are a Mageia user or just curious, feel free to come and visit our booth.
For those who are more motivated, if you feel like it, you can come and lend a hand with:
- Carrying, setting up and removing equipment
- Relieving the volunteers at our booth
We hope to meet you there to discuss Mageia and free software!!
Translated with DeepL.com (free version), proofread and enhanced by Atelier Team.
A Cauldron of ideas to help those facing the end of Windows 10
By Aguador.
The end is coming, the end is coming…the end of Windows 10 support, that is…and as part of the Linux community we can help those affected.
As of 14 October support for Windows 10 will end, leaving its users of older, less powerful machines three choices:
- Suffer slower performance (IF their machine does at least meet the minimum requirements for Win 11)
- Pay for support to continue with Win 10
- Buy new, more powerful equipment
As Linux users we know that these are not the only choices, Linux offers a range of options to suit virtually any personal taste and computer. KDE, source of one of Mageia’s flagship1 desktops, has an attractive multimedia website2 for the about-to-be orphaned Windows users.
It lays out the case for switching to Linux, with Plasma and the KDE universe of software as the alternative. The site presents the modern features of KDE-Plasma, the advantages of Free and Open Source Software, and compatibility with files produced by proprietary software. It is a great resource which Mageia community members can offer friends and colleagues facing “the end”. And, of course, as mageians, we can provide that link along with an offer to help them in getting set up with Mageia.
You do not use Plasma or do not think it is right for your friends or friends’ machines? The site also offers links to other popular desktops and, at the end, a link to the more general Endof10 website, which is also hosted by KDE. It not only offers the arguments for switching to Linux, but provides guidance in choosing a system and, most importantly, places around the world where people can find hands-on help in making the switch.
As Mageia users we know it offers all the beauty and power of Plasma and the KDE suite of programs. So do your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours a favour by not only sharing these sites (and, of course, Mageia’s), but also showing Plasma and/or other desktops in action on your machine. Oh, and if you want to write a Live ISO to a USB stick, you can even show them the Mageia we use every day in action on THEIR machines.
To us mageians it is obvious, that Mageia 9 > Win10 is not a typo!
Firefox and Thunderbird updates for armv7hl
Written by katnatek.
This is an unusual post… As we warned in the past updates MGASA-2025-01951, MGASA-2025-01972 and MGASA-2025-02013, the updates for Firefox and Thunderbird could not be delivered for armv7hl for a long time.
The issue had two causes. The first one, noticed during the QA process for the linked Security Advisories, was produced by a bug in the tools used to build Firefox for this architecture4.
The second one was harder to squash, and we were on the verge of informing you that we could not continue updating these software products in Mageia 9 for the armv7hl architecture.
But then, Pascal Terjan (one of our packagers), found a patch in the Debian community for exactly the same issue (a Rust component was using the fat link time optimization)
Firefox is now updated in all architectures, in both Mageia 9 and Cauldron, to the 128.12.0 ESR version – an upgrade from 115.13.0 on armv7hl – and Thunderbird will follow once version 128.12 is ready.
