Thanks Anand and Daniel. Seems like it has sorted it self out.
It seems that apt-get keeps a tally of what it didnt get due to a mismatch and when I do the next apt-get it just gets the ones it didnt get last time. I noticed this as each time the total size of the apckages that it needs to get gets smaller. eg 1st invocation of apt-get using --fix-missingneeded to get about 50 megs. Failed with: Failed to fetch http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xlibs_4.1.0-14_i386.deb 400 Bad Request Failed to fetch http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/d/dialog/dialog_0.9a-20011202-1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/d/defoma/defoma_0.10.1.1_all.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/g/gv/gv_3.5.8-25_i386.deb Size mismatch After a few more invokations using --fix-missing ....... needed to get about 9 megs. Need to get 8822kB/58.1MB of archives. After unpacking 64.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au testing/main xlibs 4.1.0-14 [1219kB] Err http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au testing/main dialog 0.9a-20011202-1 400 Bad Request Get:2 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au testing/main defoma 0.10.1.1 [71.9kB] Get:3 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au testing/main gv 1:3.5.8-25 [225kB] Get:4 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au testing/main gs-common 0.3.2 [12.9kB] next invokation using --fix-missing needed to get about 6 megs. Need to get 6007kB/58.1MB of archives. After unpacking 64.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au testing/main dialog 0.9a-20011202-1 [99.6kB] Err http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au testing/main defoma 0.10.1.1 and after a few times its now ok and its asking upgrade questions..... Seems I will be OK now :-) This happened on debian.us and aarnet and planet mirror so it it seems to me unlikely that the servers all happened to be updating their mirrors at the same time and hence file sizes were changing. Also it happens at the end of the upgrade files being retrieved ie the first few dozen are fine, so I suspect that there there might be a problem at my end - perhaps with an intervening proxy as Anand suggested. Anyhow now its all upgraded OK. Thanks all. Byes. Mike -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ===================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ===================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
