Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:23:24 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> On 11/12/2010, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you Patrick.
>
> On a casual browse saw Cameleon had also responded. FWIW here are the
> things requested.
Your filtering method is too agressive.
> $ sudo aptitude update
(...)
> squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages Err http://www.mirrorservice.org
> squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
> 404 Not Found [IP: 212.219.56.139 80]
(...)
You got an error from that mirror host.
> Ok because there are no updates as of yet hence cannot put up the second
> one.
I saw no errors (just the one from the mirror).
> As far as the third one here it is :-
>
> ~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> #
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot
> amd64 DVD Binary-1 20101122-04:58]/ squeeze contrib main
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot
> amd64 DVD Binary-1 20101122-04:58]/ squeeze contrib main
These two are for the DVD. If you do not have the DVD disc inserted
anymore, maybe you should comment (#) these lines :-?
> # Debian Main
> deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze
> main contrib non-free
>
> # Debian Security
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
These two are o.k.
> # Unofficial Maintainers
> # deb http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ squeeze main contrib
> non-free restricted
>
> # Debian-Multimedia.org Repository
> deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/
> squeeze/updates non-free
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
These two are outside Debian support scope, I guess. It is okay to have
them but be careful to avoid collisions.
> As far as my choice of mirrorservice.org is concerned its simply because
> that's what Best Server gave me as .
You can change it to whatever mirror you prefer if the host is giving you
problems:
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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