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

[NoOp]

On 12/22/2009 11:30 AM, arshad wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:45 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> On 12/20/2009 05:05 PM, arshad wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 09:48 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> >> # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386
>> >> (20090420.1)]/ jaunty main restricted
>> ...
>> > 
>> > unsuccessful :(
>> > thanks for your helps man.
>> 
>> OK. Try this - may not fix it, but certainly can't hurt:
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get install -f
>> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
>> $ sudo apt-get check
>> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall update-manager update-manager-core
>> $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
...
> 
> sorry,
> that one also did'nt work.
> i think the proxy is the problem. this just happens today:
> 
> $ wget
> http://cuplis.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/libpoppler2_06-0ubuntu23_i386.deb
> --2009-12-23 00:58:26--
> http://cuplis.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/libpoppler2_06-0ubuntu23_i386.deb
> Connecting to 79.174.64.146:8000... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request
> 2009-12-23 00:58:27 ERROR 400: Bad Request.

Looks that way. Did you check System|Preferences|Network Proxy to ensure
that it's turned off there? Do you still have privoxy installed?
$ locate privoxy

/etc/privoxy/config
uses port 8000 by default.