Re: problems with apt-get upgrade slink -> potato

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

Try again in a little while.  This sometimes happens.  Make sure to run
apt-get update again first.

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:36:12AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> I tried to do a slink->potato upgrade,
> I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with
> 
> atp-get update        <-- works fine...
> apt-get dist-upgrade   <-- problems...
> 
> but, (see below) it looks like I get only a few fiels, adn many many errors 
> which seem server related.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Gregory Guthrie
> 
> --------------------------
> Script started on Thu Apr 13 20:13:21 2000
> csgrg.root(501) >>
> csgrg.root(502) >> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> Reading Package Lists... 0%
> Reading Package Lists... 100%
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>    timezones libmd5-perl perl libpam0g-util perl-suid libsnmp3.6 netstd
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    libncurses5 traceroute perl-5.004-base libwrap0 libpam-modules perl-5.004
>    perl-5.005 ruptime liburi-perl libpam-runtime rusers rsh-server java-common
>    perl-5.004-suid tcpd rdate cfingerd perl-5.004-doc tftp finger libstdc++2.10
>    icmpinfo rwho bootpc rdist ftp rwall perl-5.005-base rwhod fping libsnmp4.1
>    tcl8.2 tk8.2 rsh-client debconf libreadline4 nfs-common pidentd liblockfile1
> 169 packages upgraded, 39 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 62.4MB/63.2MB of archives. After unpacking 58.2MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> 
> 0% [Waiting for file]
> 
> Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6-dev 2.1.3-8 [2092kB]
> 
> 
> 0% [1 libc6-dev 1142/2092kB 0%]
> ...
> 3% [1 libc6-dev 2088942/2092kB 99%]                           11.5kB/s 1h27m51s
> 3% [Working]                                                  11.5kB/s 1h27m50s
> Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6 2.1.3-8
>    400 Bad Request
> Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libpam0g 0.72-7
>    Bad header line
> 
> Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main snmp 4.1.1-2
>    The http server sent an invalid reply header
> 
> Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ncurses-base 5.0-6 [80.7kB]
> 
> 3% [2 ncurses-base 0/80.7kB 0%]                               11.5kB/s 1h27m50s
> 
> Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libncurses4 4.2-9
>    400 Bad Request
> 
> Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main netbase 3.18-2
>    Bad header line
> 
> Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libwrap0 7.6-4 [52.8kB]
> 
> 3% [3 libwrap0 0/52.8kB 0%]                                     9941B/s 1h41m3s
> ...
> 3% [3 libwrap0 47836/52.8kB 90%]                               9963B/s 1h40m45s
> 3% [Working]                                                   9963B/s 1h40m44s
>                                                                              
> 
> Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main tcpd 7.6-4
>    501 Method Not Implemented
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Gregory Guthrie
> guthrie@mum.edu         (515)472-1125    Fax: -1103
>         Computer Science Department
>         College of Science and Technology
>         Maharishi University of Management
>        (Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
>          http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
> -------------------------------------------------------- 
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