what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?
From: Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:48:44 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 201206131348.44297.neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>
Reply-to: neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu

Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover? The system 
was fine until I installed updates recently.

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Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en     
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en_US  
  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 
128.30.2.36 80]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en         
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US      
  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 
128.30.2.36 80]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free Translation-en     
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free Translation-en_US
  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 
128.30.2.36 80]
Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release         
Get:2 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Get:4 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Get:6 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Sources    
Get:7 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Get:8 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Get:9 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Get:10 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en
Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 
128.31.0.36 80]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/contrib Sources                       
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en        
Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US   
  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 
128.31.0.36 80]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/non-free Sources                      
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main i386 Packages                    
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/non-free Translation-en  
Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 
128.31.0.36 80]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/contrib i386 Packages                 
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/non-free i386 Packages                
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release                   
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free i386 
Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free i386 Packages
Fetched 836 B in 0s (1,610 B/s)                      
W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release: The 
following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2
W: Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/contrib/i18n/Translation-
en_US.gz  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) 
[IP: 128.30.2.36 80]

W: Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz  
Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 
128.30.2.36 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/non-
free/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz  Error reading from server - read (104: 
Connection reset by peer) [IP: 128.30.2.36 80]

W: Failed to fetch 
http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/contrib/i18n/Translation-
en_US.gz  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) 
[IP: 128.31.0.36 80]

W: Failed to fetch 
http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/main/i18n/Translation-
en_US.gz  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) 
[IP: 128.31.0.36 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/non-
free/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz  Error reading from server - read (104: 
Connection reset by peer) [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.
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The system's in pre-deployment and won't hurt to reinstall it. But it'd be 
nice to know why this happened.

Thanks,
N

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