Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb

[Tapas Mishra]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Nicolas Barcet
<nick.barcet at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 09:56 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> I got following error when I did apt-get install firefox on a Ubuntu
>> server 10.04 64 bit.
>>
>> Processing triggers for python-support ...
>> Processing triggers for python-central ...
>> E: Failed to fetch
>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb:
>> Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.92.167). - connect
>> (111: Connection refused) [IP: 91.189.92.167 80]
>> Reading package lists... Done
>
> [...]
>
>> What do I need to check?
>
> That you have connectivity to http://security.ubuntu.com/.  What to you
> get when you do:
>
> wget
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb
>
> If you have an error, I would guess someone is filtering this along the
> way...
>
> Nick
Nick thanks for the message the command you mentioned worked without
any problem.
I rebooted the server and started things again every thing worked smoothly.
I have no idea as why it went wrong the first time.