[ale] apt-get choking

[Joe Knapka]

"Bridges, Doug" <DBridges at alston.com> writes:

> I think it is something wrong on your side.  My newly installed Debian (testing) box was able to apt-get from http://http.us.debian.org without any problems 5 minutes ago.

Yep, I just tried it on a newly-installed Debian box and it worked.
I am a bit concerned about the hardware health of the box that's
having the problem. I just remembered, it's actually a Libranet
install, not plain Debian; maybe that's my problem.

Thanks,

-- Joe

> Doug
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Joe
> Knapka
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:01 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] apt-get choking
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I booted my Debian machine this morning and ran "apt-cache search
> jdk". It responded with several dozen lines of stuff like
> 
>  W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.debian.org woody Packages
>  - stat (2 No such file or directory).
> 
> Is there a problem with the Debian servers, or is something wrong on
> my side? I haven't changed anything about the APT configuration, so
> I don't see why it would suddenly stop working.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe
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