Help needed urgently please: Couldn't solve "400 Bad Request" during sytem update

[arshad]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 17:49 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 05:15 PM, Arshad wrote:
> > yes im using TOR with firefox extension. and yesterday i found that my
> > friend who is also using TOR is having the same problem as me
> 
> I've no experience with TOR, but perhaps these will help:
> 
> https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TOR
> 
> In the interim, you might backup your TOR files and purge. Then 'sudo
> apt-get update' & 'sudo apt-get upgrade' and see how that goes. If it
> works, then you can drill down to troubleshoot TOR.
> 
> 
> 

to make the things less difficult,
i disabled all the repos except the main and i (still) get the following
error:

$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty Release.gpg
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-security Release.gpg
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty Release      
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-updates Release
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-security Release
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty/main Packages
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-updates/main Packages
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-security/main Packages
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty/main Packages
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-updates/main Packages
Ign http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-security/main Packages
Err http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty/main Packages
  400 Bad Request
Err http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-updates/main Packages
  400 Bad Request
Err http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr jaunty-security/main Packages
  400 Bad Request
W: Failed to fetch
http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages
400 Bad Request

W: Failed to fetch
http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages  400 Bad Request

W: Failed to fetch
http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/main/binary-i386/Packages  400 Bad Request

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.


source list:

$ more /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386
(20090420.1)]/ jaunty
 main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade
to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr/ubuntu/ jaunty main

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive
any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as
to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the
'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful
features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
######deb http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and
the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner

deb http://ubuntu.gnu.gen.tr/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main

#tor
##deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jaunty main

# Remastersys
##deb http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository ubuntu/