Hi all. A friend whose Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS installation I'm supporting has suddenly lost the ability to update her system.
Both update-manager and Synaptic produce the same errors: W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg Could not connect to ftp.citylink.co.nz:21 (202.7.6.9). - connect (111 Connection refused) W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not connect to ftp.citylink.co.nz:21 (202.7.6.9). - connect (111 Connection refused) (and so forth) This seems to have started 31 December (at least, that's when I got the first request for help). I've found that CityLink's server can be flaky at times, but when I tried the same update it proceeded without incident. She's tried several more times with update-manager and then with Synaptic, to no avail. She's on some kind of basic broadband plan with Orcon. I've thought of getting her to point to a different server, but that wouldn't really be solving the problem. Any suggestions? TIA. =====Andrew
