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

[NoOp]

On 12/20/2009 12:02 AM, arshad wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:41 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> On 12/19/2009 11:11 AM, arshad wrote:
>> ...
>> > yeah, i changed it several times and still the same :(
>> 
>> Also, can you check System|Preferences|Network Proxy and ensure that
>> 'Direct internet connection' is checked on the 'Proxy Configuration'
>> tab, and that the 'Ignored Hosts' tab is only showing:
>> localhost
>> 127.0.0/8
>> *.local
>> 
>> 
>> 
> hi friend.
> thank you for your continues help.
...
>   400 Bad Request
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
>   400 Bad Request
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
>   400 Bad Request
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages
> 400 Bad Request
> 
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages  400 Bad Request
> 
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/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.

OK. Here is a sources.list from a clean/fresh jaunty install. Move your
old sources list aside (rename it or move it to another folder) and put
this one in /etc/apt/ and try again.


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