SOLVED Re: Still trying to get to 1680x1050 WAS: Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

[NoOp]

On 10/21/2008 06:15 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Aargh!!!!  Knode has crashed twice while I try to respond to this...
> 
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 10/21/2008 01:01 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
>>> See my response to noop - what would cause my system to not be able to
>>> find the package ?
> 
> The urls pointing to gulus.usherbrooke.ca are highly suspect.  I thought the
> upgrader always used the "canonical" (pun completely intentional) urls -
> ie, pointing to "xx.archive.ubuntu.com" where xx is a country code.

It's still listed in the Canadian mirrors... Open Synaptic & check on
Repositories & Canada. I just switched to gulus.usherbrooke.ca to test
and it seems to work just fine.