Is there a problem with the apt source us.archive.ubuntu.com?

[Tez]

Sundar Nagarajan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to do an apt-get update since this morning, and the
> update process has been consistently hanging on connection to
> us.archive.ubuntu.com since thismorning. Before that, everything was
> working fine.
>
> Below is what I see when I run apt-get update:
>
> et:1 http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release.gpg [189B]
> Get:2 http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable Release.gpg [189B]
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release
> Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable Release
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main Packages
> Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable/main Packages
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/restricted Packages
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main Sources
> Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable/main Packages
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/restricted Sources
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/multiverse Packages
> 99% [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (146.137.96.7)]
>
> And it hangs there for a while and then returns a series of 404 errors.
>
> My network connectivity is fine.
>
> Below is my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main \
>    restricted universe multiverse
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main \
>    restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security multiverse
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
>
> Some lines were too long, so I have indicated continuation using '\'
>
> I would appreciate any pointers to what may be happening.
>
> Sundar Nagarajan
>
I have tried to connect to the us archive but it's not responding (or at
least not quickly enough), so it's not a problem at your end.
The us mirror is actually mirror.mcs.anl.gov so ubuntu can't do anything
about it, but you can use a different mirror.
One is "http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu/"
Most of the mirrors on http://www.ubuntu.com/download have an apt
repository on them so try pinging them to find the best one.

Tez


http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu/