Bad header line error when updating linux-headers in Hoary

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:34:57AM +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:

> root at toshlap:/home/christb1 # aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3-686
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   evolution-data-server gnustep-gui0 gnustep-ppd kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data
>   kdelibs4 libarts1 libartsc0 libopenal0 lvm10 python-genetic zip
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3 linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3-686
> 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
> Need to get 3218kB/3490kB of archives. After unpacking 43.2MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3 2.6.8.1-17
>   Bad header line

Most likely a problem with a (transparent?) proxy server between you and the
Ubuntu servers.  This error means that one of the systems involved is not
speaking the HTTP protocol correctly.

-- 
 - mdz