Re: apt-get update foible

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@home.com>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, John Griffiths wrote:

> I went to run apt-get update (like i do at elast once a week) and got a pile of reponses like this:
> 
> Get:3 ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/contrib Release
> Err ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/contrib Release
>   Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor)
> 
> is there something i should be doing differently, or is this a transitory error?

Just now I was trying to look at that ftp site with netscape and could not
connect so I changed to ftp.us.debian.org, which is available at the
moment.

...RickM...