One for Debianites?
I have been trying to upgrade a Debian box this morning and have been
getting errors reported when running apt-get update. Typical error
messages are:
Err http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au stable/non-US/main Packages
400 Bad Request
Err http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au stable/updates/non-free Release
Bad header line
Failed to fetch
http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/linux/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages
400 Bad Request
or a similar one with "Bad header line"
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Unable to parse package file
/var/state/apt/lists/mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au_pub_linux_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package list or status file could not be parsed or opened
I have run the command several times with different results. ie the
lines returning "Bad Request" or "Bad header file" etc. change so I
assume the mirrors themselves do not contain corrupt data and that my
/etc/apt/sources.list is pointing to valid sources.
Is this the sort of result one would expect from transmission errors?
My /etc/apt/sources.list currently contains the lines:
deb http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/linux/debian-security
stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/linux/debian stable main contrib
non-free
deb http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/linux/debian-non-US stable/non-US
main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
Can anyone enlighten me on what is happening here?
regards,
Ken
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