On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:38 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 1/12/07, Stephen Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Oh! The last part of that error message is as follows - >> >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or >> old ones used instead. >> ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 >> WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. >> >> I'd appreciate any help. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Stephen Ng >> >> On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Stephen Ng wrote: >> >> > Hi! >> > >> > I installed fink about a week ago and per installation instructions >> > I attempted to perform a "selfupdate" and have been trying for the >> > past week! It seems there is a problem with the binary >> > distributions web site. I keep getting the following errors - >> > >> > ... >> > Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary >> > distribution. >> > /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update >> > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages >> > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' >> > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Release >> > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' >> > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Packages >> > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' >> > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Release >> > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' >> > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Packages >> > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' >> > >> > etc ... >> > >> > What is the problem? >> > >> > Regards. >> > >> > Stephen Ng >> >> > > Maybe you hit a temporary outage--it worked for me just now. > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > (akh) > Fink Documenter (still) >
That was my initial thought. Then I thought that the earthquake in Taiwan could have been a problem coz I'm in Malaysia and its supposed to have cut quite a few comms links, but I've been trying for over a week and internet comms seem to be alright now and I keep getting that error. Is there anything in the setup/config that needs to be looked at like firewalls etc? There's no such information in the docs. Thanks again. Stephen Ng ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
