apt-get errors : localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1)

[Adam Conrad]

abonnema wrote:
> Additionally to the previous message, it turns out that this problem is
> user-confined. Using root I do not have this problem. In stead issuing
> apt-get update after su - gives me a correct update, no errors.
> 
> Why is adept/apt-get trying to talk to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1) in
> stead of my ethernet card, while it works correctly for root? 

Because you have http_proxy defined?  (at a shell, "echo $http_proxy").
 If so, perhaps you configured it at one point in the GNOME proxy
configuration control panel?

... Adam