apt-get update problem on first use after Hoary preview install

[Nathan Sprangers]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:26 +0000, Seb Wills wrote:
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> Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
>    Bad header line
> Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Packages
>    Bad header line
> Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Sources
>    Bad header line
> Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Sources
>    Bad header line
> Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
> Bad header line
> Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
> Bad header line
> Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/source/Sources.gz 
> Bad header line
> Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/restricted/source/Sources.gz 
> Bad header line
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
> ones used instead.

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> A few minutes later I tried the same apt-get update and it worked fine: 6 
> "Get" lines and 6 "Hit" lines; no errors.
> 
> Someone who understands apt-get better than me can probably tell me 
> exactly what the problem was. I'm posting it case it turns out to be 
> a bug in the state that the installer leaves the new system in, rather 
> than a temporary glitch somewhere.

Actually my guess would be a temporary glitch with the
gb.archive.ubuntu.com server (specifically those files above).  If you
can reproduce the error then it might be a bug...
-- 
Nathan Sprangers <farruinn at cwazy.co.uk>