server keeps updating openjdk

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 10:28:45 Tapas Mishra wrote:
> Like this the above output grows till I got 70th time
> Get:70 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main
> openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB]
> then I had to forcefully stop the update from happening.
> What is causing this problem?

This looks like a download problem, I just tested and both amd64 and i386 
files download fine manually:

wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-
headless_6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1_amd64.deb

can you test if that works for you?

in principle you could work around this by placing the manually downloaded 
file into the appropriate place and /var but that won't tell you/us why apt 
failed here.

Carsten