broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On 10/25/07, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Hi NoOp



That didn´t work either.  Still can only ping  places, can´t seem to do
anything else. Beginning to lookk like a fresh install over the long
weekend. Oh well. Gonna happen here and there for sure

James
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