package prob

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:47:56 Brien J. Wankel wrote:
> 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

Hi Brien

No apt-proxy here. apt-utils tho but I doubt that's the culprit. However 
looking in synaptic at anything installed that matches a search for proxy I 
noticed smproxy

James