On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 12:24 +1300, Andrew Packer wrote: > 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 > Mine's updating no problem from nz.archive.ubuntu.com... sources.list contains
deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main restricted deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-updates main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe multiverse deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-updates universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe multiverse Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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