Re: Student filter breaking Debian installs
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 16:55:39 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Is it possible that your filtering/proxy setup returns some notification text (instead of a 404 error) if a non-existing or blocked file is requested from the web? [...] wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Oh boy...a whole pile of html comes back telling the story of why that page is blocked. You can check the status that is given in the header when this page is served by running wget -S If the status is HTTP/1.1 200 OK then it is not too surprising that apt thinks it has received a valid file. Maybe your administrator is willing to change the filtering setup such that it serves the notification page with an error status, for example 403 Forbidden; that might be enough to make apt ignore the file. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Student filter breaking Debian installs
Hi, Our nice network chappie has opened restriction on .gpg, .gz .bz2 .deb and files without . but something is is still not working... Here's a log of an aptitude update: 94% [6 Translation-en_GB bzip2 0] [Connecting to ftp.uk.debian.org (83.142.228.bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. Ign http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_GB 63% [7 Translation-en_GB bzip2 0] [Connecting to ftp.uk.debian.org (83.142.228.bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. And then things fall apart...repeating gets forever. I am sorry but looking over the repository I cant find Translation-en_GB What real file is involved here please so we can add to the filter exceptions? Are there any others we should check? ta Berni -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Student filter breaking Debian installs
Berni Elbourn wrote: Our nice network chappie has opened restriction on .gpg, .gz .bz2 .deb and files without . but something is is still not working... I think it would help if you could be more specific about what was done and how you connect to the internet. What real file is involved here please so we can add to the filter exceptions? What kind of filter? Proxy? Whatever? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Student filter breaking Debian installs
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:36:32 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: Hi, Our nice network chappie has opened restriction on .gpg, .gz .bz2 .deb and files without . but something is is still not working... Here's a log of an aptitude update: 94% [6 Translation-en_GB bzip2 0] [Connecting to ftp.uk.debian.org (83.142.228.bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. Ign http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_GB 63% [7 Translation-en_GB bzip2 0] [Connecting to ftp.uk.debian.org (83.142.228.bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. And then things fall apart...repeating gets forever. I am sorry but looking over the repository I cant find Translation-en_GB What real file is involved here please so we can add to the filter exceptions? As far as I understand it, apt(itude) should realize that there are no Translation-en_GB.* files in the main/i18n directory and therefore it should ignore the translation and move on. Is it possible that your filtering/proxy setup returns some notification text (instead of a 404 error) if a non-existing or blocked file is requested from the web? I could see how that might confuse apt. The messages that you posted suggest that apt does receive some content for the translation file and I do not think that this content comes from the Debian server. Are there any others we should check? What happens if you try to retrieve the non-existing translation file with wget? wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 You should see a 404 error (not found). (Replace http://; with ftp://; if the latter is what you have specified in your sources.list.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Student filter breaking Debian installs
Florian Kulzer wrote: As far as I understand it, apt(itude) should realize that there are no Translation-en_GB.* files in the main/i18n directory and therefore it should ignore the translation and move on. Is it possible that your filtering/proxy setup returns some notification text (instead of a 404 error) if a non-existing or blocked file is requested from the web? I could see how that might confuse apt. The messages that you posted suggest that apt does receive some content for the translation file and I do not think that this content comes from the Debian server. What happens if you try to retrieve the non-existing translation file with wget? wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Oh boy...a whole pile of html comes back telling the story of why that page is blocked. Good spot - thanks, Berni -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
