Can't add urpmi channel in Mandriva 2010.1 with Smart 1.3.1 or 1.4, AND >98% CPU load

[David]

  With a fresh installation of Smart, either 1.3.1 or 1.4 (Mandriva 
builds), when trying to add an urpmi channel it fails with the message: 
"Base URL (baseurl) and Mirror List URL (mirrorurl) cannot both be 
specified as fields for 'urpmi' channels," however I have only entered 
information into "Base URL" and "Header List URL" nothing into "Mirror 
List URL."

Has anyone seen this problem and has a solution? Perhaps it only occurs 
on Mandriva 2010.1 using Mandriva builds of Smart? Could it be since 
Mandriva have started linking Smart to their own mirror lists?

I have deleted both /var/lib/smart and /usr/lib/smart and retried with 
freshly initialised configuration, but have same problem.

Please note however that there are also other issues that now make Smart 
(1.4 at least) virtually unusable (on Fedora 13 too), being >98% cpu 
utilisation during channel refresh or package download, and no progress 
indication whatever, as if the Smart package has crashed but it hasn't; 
if one waits long enough task completes, only visual feedback is broken. 
This affects both i586 and 64 bit systems.

Note that Smart does work on Mandriva 2010.1 if using the Mandriva 
supplied init script for Smart which links Smart to Mandriva's auto 
mirror list - HOWEVER - Smart always crashes on startup until 
reconfiguring the Mandriva channels manually. In a day or two, it's 
necessary to reconfigure the channels manually again otherwise Smart 
again crashes on startup. The error message escapes me right now but 
Smart seems to think one or more channels is corrupt (they're not 
because they still work in Mandriva's package manager).

I have been using Smart for about 5 years now in preference to the 
Mandriva supplied package manager and this is the first time I have had 
issues trying to configure channels or anything else. Thanks /Gustavo 
and others/ who have given us Smart, for (normally) a great package manager.

If I can be of any help in sorting out these issues by providing 
feedback on any bugfix patches on either Mandriva or Fedora, please let 
me know. Smart is a great program and I'd love to have it working well 
again as soon as possible.

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