On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:17:48AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > Thanks, > The sources.list in my case is, > deb file:/cdrom/debian unstable main contrib local non-US/main
> > Pruning my /etc/apt/sources.list to the minimum has made the problem > > go away almost completely. Before I had a rather long list (the two > > nearest Debian mirrors, plus my personal package repository, Maybe it is related to the type "file:" rather than to the length of the file... But as you said witha shorter it sometimes fails, too, this guess is probably wrong. I have three deb (mirror, alpha, non-us) and two deb-src repositories, all http (except alpha, which is ftp). Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
