Update servers down?

[timonoj]

Hi, I was just giving a try to this new OS (with a good ghost image of the old one, just in case). A very important thing for me was the wifi card, an intel 4965AGN which catched on the go. So good. But: The update servers keep timing out! It's like there are down for 10 min, then if i refresh http://es.archives.ubuntu.com/ the page suddenly loads, so I have to do whatever I want FAST. It will keep working for a couple of mins, then, again, timeout. Why is that?? I can't keep waiting for my turn of downloading things if i have to update something...It's like a rapidshare server or something like that!

[Bongo5HH]

Re: Update servers down?

Hi timonoj

You'll want to go into Adept.

Then using the menu at the very top go Adept/Manage Repositories a popup window will appear.

There will be a button with a pull-down menu at the lower right of the popup window. Use the pull-down menu to select "Main Server"

Now exit out of there and click on "Fetch Updates" your lists will load from the main server and you should be good to go.

I find the individual country servers are much slower than the main one.

Kev

[timonoj]

Re: Update servers down?

Thank you so much! Will it make any difference? I mean, the main server should keep all the multilingual packages, shouldn't it?

[eriefisher]

Re: Update servers down?

I believe all the servers are just mirrors of each other. Some may be uploaded to later than others but they should all have the same packages.

eriefisher

[timonoj]

Re: Update servers down?

Hi! Here I am again. The thing is the servers that are supposedly down with the GG, work flawlessly with Feisty! BTW, I tried some other servers and I'm getting sort of the same problem, which in Feisty work fine. It's more likely a Wireless card bug, or related.
I have an Intel 4965AGN card...Any suggestion? Thanks!

[MoonRise]

Re: Update servers down?

I've had trouble connecting to the Repos as well. It could be an issue with too many people trying to connect. I'll wait a while and see if it settles down some.

[dibl]

Re: Update servers down?

There is some serious flakiness going on at this moment -- I got one big update an hour ago, then the "notifier" light came on again, and it downloaded the headers, attempted to install a bunch more, then reported "error on commit". So, I think it's snarfed up. :P

MORE:

dpkg: error processing volumeid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of udev:
 udev depends on volumeid (= 113-0ubuntu13); however:
 Package volumeid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 volumeid
 udev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

dpkg --configure -a

doesn't help

sudo apt-get autoclean

cleaned some stuff out, but didn't fix this

sudo apt-get update

and

upgrade

didn't help

:P I think we're waiting .....

[MoonRise]

Re: Update servers down?

I agree and I've given up for the day.