broken dist upgrade

[NoOp]

On 10/24/2007 05:40 PM, James Takac wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>>
>> NoOp spake thusly on:
>>
>> > Sounds very much like the problem that I had with one of my systems. For
>> > some reason /etc/apt/sources.list did not get updated to include:
>> >
>> > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe
>> > multiverse
>>
>> IMO, archive.ubuntu.com is about the worst place to point your
>> sources.list files. There are dozens of mirrors. The main one is almost
>> always slower.  And with everyone upgrading at around the same time,
>> that only made the problem worse I'm sure.
>>
>> Oh and I don't upgrade. I do clean installs. Upgrading is against my
>> religion, :)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>             Scott
>> http://angrykeyboarder.com
>> I've never used an OS I didn't (dis)like.
>> (c)2007 angrykeyboarder� & Elmer Fudd. All Wites Wesewved
>>
>>
>> Hi Scott
> 
> 
> 
> been using the main server myself and went through the dist upgrade to
> 7.04on same pc without much bother. This is the first dist upgrade
> that has
> given any probs and still have 2 pcs to go. will sort out the first before
> contemplating the others
> 
> James
> 
> 

On one that is working:

System | Administration | Software Sources | Ubuntu Software |
Download from: click & select "Other". That will ping the mirrors & find
the one that is responding best to your location. Mine is currently set
to http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu

Once you've found the best one, it will automagically modify your
sources list to that mirror. On the broken machine, modify your
/etc/apt/sources.list in nano to the mirror instead of the main server.