[Bug 223826] Re: Unhelpful error when selected Ubuntu mirror is unresponsive

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

As shown in duplicate bug 528208, this doesn't apply just to dist-
upgrade, but to any repository operation. That report also suggests
inviting you to change to a more responsive server.

** Summary changed:

- [Dist Upgrade] Enhancement: user-friendly error reporting?
+ Unhelpful error when selected Ubuntu mirror is unresponsive

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Title:
  Unhelpful error when selected Ubuntu mirror is unresponsive

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Hi,

  I'm using Kubuntu 7.10 (fr; fully up to date) and I try to upgrade to
  Kubuntu 8.04 (fr) with the Adept Updater (adept-updater
  2.1.3ubuntu17.1) -> Distribution Upgrade.

  During the process to update repositories list, when some repositories
  are not fetched, the Distribution Upgrade ends at this point, without
  answering any user-friendly report and what to do in that case. In the
  same time, the timeout seems to be very very long to get the error
  report (I had to wait nearly 10 minutes to get no answers from only 10
  missing repositories!).

  Should I have to manually comment these repositories in my
  sources.list? Should I have to wait for all repositories to be
  updated? I'm not a developper, just an end-user, what should I have to
  do?

  Just for information, here is the error report that I get at the time of my bug report (fr):
  "
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/i18n/Translation-fr.bz2 Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/restricted/i18n/Translation-fr.bz2 Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/universe/i18n/Translation-fr.bz2 Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/multiverse/i18n/Translation-fr.bz2 Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/Release.gpg Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/i18n/Translation-fr.bz2 Échec de la connexion
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-fr.bz2 Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-fr.bz2 Connexion à fr.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (194.2.0.36) impossible, délai de connexion dépassé
  Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-backports/Release.gpg Échec de la connexion
  "

  Would it be possible to enhance error reporting for the Distribution
  Upgrade process?

  Regards,
  Johan

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