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[Bruce Kingsbury]

My 2c since there seems to be a little misinformation in here;

You were on the right track originally; when you see 127.0.0.1:3129 or
127.0.0.1:8080 generally means it's trying to access the net via some
sort of proxy (eg squid or dans-guardian) running on the same host.
This may be defined by the environment variable HTTP_PROXY. It may
also be defined just for apt somewhere in /etc/apt/ (usually either
the sources.list or a special proxy config file). It can also be
defined as a systemwide default proxy elsewhere in /etc/ (Generally I
just end up using 'grep -r "127.0.0.1:8080" /etc/* ' to find it.)

I have no idea how that could have been set on a fresh install though,
other than by you having entered the proxy details during the install.
I think http://127.0.0.1:8080 is the example provided by the
installer, so perhaps that's what you did?

Also ubuntu has no root password by default, you use 'sudo' or 'gksu'
with your normal user password to do things as root. If you want a
root shell use 'sudo -i'

It's also very easy with grub to boot directly to a single user root
shell and change any user's password (including setting one for root
if you wish) .. I haven't found out how to do the same with grub2 but
I'm sure that will also be possible.