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

[Steve]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:21:11 -0000, arshad <arshad3m at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
<snip>
  ##deb http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository ubuntu/
>
>
>
Have you tried changing to a different Server, perhaps the main one for  
now.

-- 
Steve