On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the 64 bit version of Debian etch running on an AMD system. All > was well until recently when it stopped doing updates with the error: > cannot connect to host 4001: 127.0.0.1 connection refused (error 111 ...) > (Note that this as close as I can remember the error message as I > rebooted into ubuntu 32 bit before writing this) > It still connects to the internet and is happy to browse but if I ask it > to check for updates it gives this error and apt-get update also gives > this error on the repository I use. > Although now, since moving from SuSE, I usually use Ubuntu I am not > familiar with Debian. Is this a common error and is it easily fixed? Any > clues appreciated.
I have run both Debian and Ubuntu on AMD64 for about 5 years now. I have never seen that issue. It looks like trying to connect to a host '4001', which does not look right. Check your apt sources... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
