Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

[Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.co.uk>]

cat /etc/apt/apt.conf

APT::Default-Release "stable" ;

APT::Cache-Limit "33554432" ;


APT::Install-Recommends "0" ;

APT::Install-Suggests "0" ;


// See Debian bug 613068

Acquire::FTP::Passive ;


 apt-get -f install 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libparted1.8-10
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apt-utils libc-bin libc6 libc6-i686 libdb5.1 locales
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdb5.1
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt-utils libc-bin libc6 libc6-i686 locales
5 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 227 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 4,801 kB/11.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 3,240 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  locales libc-bin libc6 libc6-i686 libdb5.1 apt-utils
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main locales all 2.13-4 [4,801 kB]
Err ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main locales all 2.13-4
  Could not connect passive socket. [IP: 130.89.149.226 21]
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I'll try and get a sniffer on this to see if I can log the requests and responses.

Mark.