Re: apt-get failures?
http.us.debian.org resolves to several different servers. Perhaps one
of them was corrupted while another was correct. I've seen the apt-get
process hang when one of the servers was apparently not reachable.
Repeating the apt-get command usually results in success (YMMV).
Bob
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:22:15PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> I want to try upgrading to testing (woody). First I went to the debian
> site and plucked the following sources directly from them:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free
>
> Then I did the following:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
>
> 176 packages upgraded, 41 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 92.3MB of archives. After unpacking 65.3MB will be used.
>
> I'm good with that so I say yes...
>
> I am seeing the following problems:
>
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libc6 2.2.2-4
> 400 Bad Request
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libncurses5 5.2.20010318-1
> Bad header line
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libldap2 2.0.7-5
> 404 Not Found
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main lilo 1:21.7-3
> 404 Not Found
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main binutils 2.11.90.0.5-1
> 404 Not Found
>
>
> Thing about this one is a friend of mine did the exact same upgrade not
> 10 minutes before me and it worked flawlessly. Ideas? How much risk is
> there to go ahead and update with that many files not found?
>
> Then at the end of the download it spits out a ton of this:
>
> Fetched 85.8MB in 33m22s (42.9kB/s)
> Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.2-4_i386.deb
> 400 Bad Request
> Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses5_5.2.20010318-1_i386.deb
> Bad header line
> Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05-3_i386.deb
> Size mismatch
> Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.11b-4_i386.deb
> Size mismatch
>
> See those "Size mismatch"? What the heck is going on?
>
> Is this one of those, it's too early to expect a successful dist-upgrade?
> Or could there be something else going on that I don't know about that
> I'm doing wrong?
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