package prob

[Brien J. Wankel]

do you by chance have 'apt-proxy' installed? if so, it may be worth 
removing/disabling it as a troubleshooting step.

--brien.

on another wild guess, check if anything looks suspicious in the apt 
config directories:
bash$ sudo grep -i proxy /etc/apt -R


James Takac wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:48:02 B.W. Willems wrote:
>   
>> Did you try using a different mirror?
>>
>> Maybe just stating the obvious, but to me it seems like the server is
>> just down...
>>
>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:39 +1000, James Takac wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:17:42 Brien J. Wankel wrote:
>>>       
>>>> just a hunch, but do you have a proxy set in:
>>>> Synaptic >> Settings Menu >> Preferences >> Network Tab?
>>>>
>>>> it looks like Synaptic is trying to connect locally. if you have proxy
>>>> settings, try it again with "Direct connection to the internet"
>>>> checked.
>>>>
>>>> James Takac wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi Guys
>>>>>
>>>>> Am having probs getting automake via synaptic package manager. I get
>>>>> the following errors every time
>>>>>
>>>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>>>> http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/autoconf/autoconf_2.6
>>>>> 1-3_ all.deb Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). -
>>>>> connect (111 Connection refused)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>>>> http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/autotools-dev/autotoo
>>>>> ls-d ev_20060920.1_all.deb Could not connect to localhost:4001
>>>>> (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>>>> http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.9/automake1
>>>>> .9_1 .9.6+nogfdl-3ubuntu1_all.deb Could not connect to localhost:4001
>>>>> (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>>>> http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.9-nonfree/a
>>>>> utom ake1.9-doc_1.9.6-1_all.deb Could not connect to localhost:4001
>>>>> (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> is this a prob my side or theirs?
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>>           
>>> It was already set to direct connection. I have not proxies set
>>>
>>> James
>>>       
>
> Hi
>
> Just had a look at the output from 
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> What I'm finding suggests a proxy though I don't have one active to my 
> knowledge
>
> Failed to fetch 
> http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
> Could not resolve 'proxyaddress'
>
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily 
> unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another 
> process using it?
>
> Those are some of the lines
>
> James
>
>
>