Re: apt-listbugs error retrieving bugreports
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:28:28PM +0100, michael wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 07:03 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:58:44PM +0200, Jean Monnat wrote:
> > >
> > > Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > For the last few days apt-listbugs is failing with the following
> > > > message:
> > > >
> > > > Connection timed out - connect(2) (bugs.donarmstrong.com, #80)
> > > >
> > > > I don't know what this server is; pinging it does show it is is down but
> > > > I don't know why apt-listbugs is trying to reach it.
> > > >
> > > > Googling shows people with similar problems though not identical, and no
> > > > obvious solutions.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone else seeing it?
> > > >
> > > I have exactly the same problem. Any solution is welcome.
> > >
> > > Jean
> > >
> >
> > Until the problem goes away for you, I'd remove apt-listbugs. Although
> > from what I've read the servers are fixed.
> >
> > If this happens again just remove apt-listbugs for a week, otherwise
> > APT itself will become pretty unusable (Unless you can disable it? I'm
> > not sure how one would go about doing this though)
> >
> >
>
> Okay, it slows things down but it doesn't make things unstable. You can
> still (at your own risk) install ignoring whatever bugs...
>
>
I said unusable, not unstable ;P
It wouldn't cancel for me, everytime I Ctrl+C'd to try to maybe cancel
the bug retrieving it cancelled the entire install process. I had to
purge it to get APT installing packages again.
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