adept connection problem

[Argos]

i installed Kubuntu 6.06, but it seems that adept cannot access the web in order to fetch the latest updates and packages.

i checked the apt sources file and everything seems to be OK.

any thoughts on how to detect the problem ?

thanks

[Fenyx]

Re: adept connection problem

Type in

sudo apt-get update

in Konsole, and copy-paste the output messages here.

You could also try posting your sources.list, just to be sure.

[Argos]

Re: adept connection problem

when running the apt-get update command, i get this:
0% [Connecting to au.archive.ubuntu.com (1.0.0.0)] [Connecting to security.ubun
mega@mega-linux:~$ sudo apt-get update
Errhttp://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg
Could not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Errhttp://kubuntu.org dapper Release.gpg
Could not connect to kubuntu.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Errhttp://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg
Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Errhttp://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg
Could not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out


it seems it has a problem resolving the address. IPv6 maybe ?

[Goofus Maximus]

Re: adept connection problem

I think the problem is just that Kubuntu/Ubuntu is a victim of it's own popularity, and the update servers are getting hammered because of the latest KDE release. The http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu sources have been lagged to unresponsive for about three days now, and the us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ server is starting bog down now as well.

I'm having to reinstall because of this. I don't think the apt-based updaters are very forgiving of uncertain connections, since a timeout right toward the end of my last update trashed my X login, and during reinstallation, ALL the sources got commented out because it "could not verify" them.

I just opened my sources.list file via "kdesu kate", and changed all my sources to http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ on the theory that servers on the opposite side of the planet won't be so swamped, and it worked for me!

Now that the us source server is back up, my sources.list looks like this:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## For when the security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu sources are down.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security universe

# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse

[Argos]

Re: adept connection problem

I think the problem is just that Kubuntu/Ubuntu is a victim of it's own popularity, and the update servers are getting hammered because of the latest KDE release. T

as i wrote earlier, it seems that both apt and adept does not resolve the correct IP address from the dns. see how on my previous post, where i copied the output from apt, the address of the archive server is resolved as 10.0.0.0 ?

[missy_trinity]

Re: adept connection problem

Hello,

Does the problem is resolve??
It's the fouth time I try to install the Kubuntu software but it freeze :
1) when the installation stage is the adt install
2) When I go into the fresh installation and the adt tell me to uptate.. 107 files to download..

I cannot apt-get install apache2 because when I tell "install" the message the adept tell is "broken".. also for the C compile all of them....

Somebody have a solution??

Thanks

Regards

[gumnut]

Re: adept connection problem

gday,
i've installed kubuntu and havent been able to get any updates through adept, apt-get or aptitude. i only have 935 installed packages and do not have make or build essential so cannot install synaptic.
have tried all of the posted sources lists but to my dismay i only get the timed out error notification.
if the address of the server is 10.0.0.0 and the address our shell is showing is 1.0.0.0, then how do we get adept or apt to go to the correct address
thanx for any assistance

[Argos]

Re: adept connection problem

A workaround i came across - not the ideal solution but for now solves the problem:

First, this problem happens (for me at least) on a machine connected to a router. the address 10.0.0.0 is the router's IP address.
what i did was going to system settings->network settings->entered admin mode->tab: domain name system->added my ISP's ip address in the domain name servers. i allso deleted my routers IP address that already was there.

click apply and open a consle. run 'sudo apt-get update'. if it updates all the repsitories than you're done.

hope this solves the problem for you to....

[gumnut]

Re: adept connection problem

thanx for that i'll try it and get back to you

[gumnut]

Re: adept connection problem

gday again,

thanx for the help. i couldn't change my ip address as my server does not have a static address. what i did do was go into domain name system and ad my primary and secondary server and delete the auto generated one.
if any one in OZ is using aapt and is having trouble then this may solve youre problem.

again thanx to the forum 

[Argos]

Re: adept connection problem

gday again,

thanx for the help. i couldn't change my ip address as my server does not have a static address. what i did do was go into domain name system and ad my primary and secondary server and delete the auto generated one.
if any one in OZ is using aapt and is having trouble then this may solve youre problem.

again thanx to the forum

HI. good to know it worked finally.
Make sure you change the sources in the sources.list file to include your country's prefix.

for example, if you live in Australia type:
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security main restricted

and so on...
exclude from this the security archive, cause i know they don't have mirrors.