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

[arshad]

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 12:00 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/23/2009 11:27 AM, arshad wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 11:08 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> >> On 12/22/2009 09:14 PM, arshad wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:37 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> >> ...
> >> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> > i have this:
> >> > forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
> >> > 
> >> > is that ok?
> >> 
> >> Not unless you intend to use a proxy. Here is what I'd posted in a
> >> previous msg:
> >> 
> >> > 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
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> There should be no other entries other than those three:
> >>  localhost
> >>  127.0.0/8
> >>  *.local
> >> 
> >> And what was the result of the locate command that I'd asked you to do?:
> >> 
> >> $ locate privoxy
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > thank you for your help.
> > under proxy configurations only those three are showing even at the
> > moment though i use proxy.
> > 
> > here is the output for what you asked:
> > 
> > $ locate privoxy
> > /etc/privoxy
> <snip>
> 
> So you do have privoxy installled. You could purge privoxy to ensure the
> config files are removed as well (sudo apt-get purge privoxy), check
> your updates to see if they work & then reinstall if you really want to
> use it. Note: backup your config files to an alternate location if you
> want to keep them.
> 
> These might be of interest:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/privoxy
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/privoxy/+bug/459131
>  [privoxy filters out aptitude package manager by default in 9.10]
>  "My work around was adding +ubuntu.com to /etc/privoxy/trust"
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/privoxy/+bug/427625
>  [privoxy not start at boot - karmic]
> 
> 
> 

hi no0p,
all of a sudden it seems to work now.
i think apt-get is working but not fully:

$ sudo apt-get update
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thank you very much.