Re: Still Almost Impossible to Upgrade (Solved, well, not really)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-03-22 15:22, David Baron wrote:
> > > Apt-listbugs fails with "empty string from SOAP" which is not so clean :-)
>
> > > Any way to fix/work around?
>
> > I gave /etc/apt/apt.conf an "acquire" group with some retries and a nice long 
> > timeout, i.e.
>
> > Acquire
> > {
> >  Retries "3";
> > Timeout "999";
> > };
>
> > Such was apparently done to "fix" previous filings of this bug by me.
>
> It worked that one time. Not afterwards. More or less, impossible to upgrade 
> more than one package at a time.

What if you remove apt-listbugs?  Temporarily, of course...

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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