Re: ftp.us.debian.org issue?

[Chris Trainor <christr@macross.com>]

I've had similar issues.  I just switched to ftp.debian.org for now.

--Chris




On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Dave Barnett wrote:

> For the last several days, I cannot run apt-get update on my Ultra 10 running 
> unstable:
>
> Get:4 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  ' [IP: 35.9.37.225 
> 21]
> Fetched 1B in 2s (0B/s)
> Failed to fetch 
> ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-sparc/Packages.gz 
> Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  ' [IP: 35.9.37.225 
> 21]
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones 
> used instead.
>
>
> I manually go to:
> ftp://35.9.37.225/debian/dists/unstable/main
>
> and the directory binary-sparc does not exist.
>
> My sources.list shows:
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
>
> I don't believe this is anything I can change myself -- or is it? -- so, what 
> is my next step?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
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