Re: Re: Lenny and testing and testing and apt

[Vidyadhar Gadgil <vgadgil@gmail.com>]

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:10:09 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote:
>> "netselect was unable to find a mirror, this probably means that
>> you are behind a firewall and it is blocking traceroute."
>> 
>> I haven't done any tinkering with firewalls, what I installed is what I
>> got. What is this problem?
> 
> Can you use traceroute from the command line, e.g.
> 
> traceroute ftp.se.debian.org

Yes. This is the output:

traceroute to ftp.se.debian.org (130.239.18.173), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  local.gateway (192.168.1.1)  4.203 ms  6.496 ms  6.495 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  napoleon.acc.umu.se (130.239.18.173)  492.244 ms  495.415 ms  493.913 ms

And the problems persists

> If ftp.port80.se is a proper mirror, then it should have "testing" as a
> symlink pointing to "lenny", so your new line should work. I had a quick
> look and it seems to me that ftp.port80.se/debian/ is set up correctly.
> What is the exact error message that you get from "apt-get update"?

I don't understand it, it's working fine now. But I tried it so many
times earlier. It's beyond me...

Thank you very much for the help. I am still trying to figure out the
first problem.

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