Adept error committing changes...

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday 17 November 2007 10:15:37 am Ronnie Tucker wrote:
> >> Just recently (within the last few days) my Adept is giving me the
> >> error: There was an error committing changes. Possibly there was a
> >> problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages.
> >>
> >> Never had this before and can't update things now. My broadband is fine
> >> and is available for Adept to download packages.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what would suddenly cause this? Or how to fix it?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ronnie Tucker
> >
> > Have you tried doing the update from within Konsole?
> >
> > sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> When I try the upgrade from Konsole I get a '403 Forbidden' on a couple
> of the Gutsy repo's... what the hell?  :/
>
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libsmbclient samba-common smbclient
> 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 8606kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main smbclient
> 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1
>   403 Forbidden
> Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main samba-common
> 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1
>   403 Forbidden
> Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main libsmbclient
> 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1
>   403 Forbidden
> Failed to fetch
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.26a-1ubun
>tu2.1_i386.deb 403 Forbidden
> Failed to fetch
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.26a-1u
>buntu2.1_i386.deb 403 Forbidden
> Failed to fetch
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.26a-1u
>buntu2.1_i386.deb 403 Forbidden
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
> --fix-missing?
>
>
> I haven't touched my list of repos at all. It's a fresh install of Gutsy...
>
> --
> Ronnie Tucker
>
> ronnie at ronnietucker.co.uk
> www.RonnieTucker.co.uk
>
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This was fixed for me this morning, but the reason for the problem was 
mentioned in the forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3783704&postcount=4

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