Maybe I don't have the same problem after all, but all of my error messages were due to PPAs. I deleted those PPAs, and redownloaded them, making sure to get the GPG key for each, and that solved the problem for me. This bug is incredibly annoying. Best of luck to everyone.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Sam Hiatt <samhi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still over 7 months after the OP, I too am experiencing the same > problem. > > Luckily the suggestion in post #36 seems to have SOLVED it, but this is > ONLY A WORKAROUND. I also have AT&T (ugh!) and it seems AT&T's DNS > servers are just too slow. I was able to manually set the Google DNS > servers on my AT&T 2wire router, which is nice because this will solve > the same problem for all machines on my network now. ... Hopefully this > change will have the additional side effect of increasing my overall > network latency (which previously sucked!). > > But still... APT should definitely tweak it's settings to allow longer > timeouts, or to retry a couple times after failure. No other network- > connected software had problems with AT&T's crappy latency, so clearly > APT is failing to accommodate such poor connections. > > Does anyone out there know if these parameters are configurable? If so, > how, and where? ... and if such a fix works, why aren't those defaults > correctly configured in Maverick? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574886 > > Title: > Apt has strange network errors when updating indexes. > > Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: apt > > If I update the apt indices either in Synaptic Package Manager, Update > Manager or from the command line, it fails to download a random > selection of indexes (from 0 to 3, usually). The errors look like > this: > > W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid- > security/Release.gpg Something wicked happened resolving > 'security.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > W: Failed to fetch > http://archive.canonical.com/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Something wicked > happened resolving 'archive.canonical.com:http' (-5 - No address > associated with hostname) > > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old > ones used instead. > > It is usually about two that fail, though sometimes more, and > sometimes none. I just have a wireless router attached to a cable > modem, standard home broadband. If I run 'update' a couple times, it > will get everything. Apt has no problem downloading or installing > packages. I can run 'ping' against these servers with zero packet > loss. > > If I do a single update with errors and then try to install packages, > sometimes it warns me that packages are unsigned. > > Originally, I had upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10, so to make sure it wasn't > an upgrade problem, I backed up my personal files, and installed 10.04 > from scratch. The problem persisted with the default Ubuntu 10.04 > install. > > My laptop is a Compaq CQ60 215dx. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 > Package: apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu7 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 > Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64 > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Mon May 3 19:33:15 2010 > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 > (20100429) > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_US.utf8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: apt > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/574886/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574886 Title: Apt has strange network errors when updating indexes. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
