Failed update

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 15:06 +1200, chris wrote: 
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 19:09 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> > Three days ago I turned on a Ubuntu 10.04 system that hadn't been run 
> > for over a month.  Update manager reported 90 updates to download.  When 
> > it was all done it reported 13 files it could not download. I waited a 
> > couple of hours and tried again with the same result.  This time I let 
> > it apply the updates that it could.
> > 
> > Today I tried again and it still could not download those files.  Here's 
> > a snippet of what it could not get:
> > 
> > W: Failed to fetch 
> > http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/chromium-browser-l10n_11.0.696.68~r84545-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_all.deb
> >    404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
> > 
> > W: Failed to fetch 
> > http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-meta/linux-generic_2.6.32.31.37_i386.deb
> >    404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.30 80]
> > 
> > In the past when this happened it was usually some type of server issue 
> > that cleared up rather quickly.  What would you suggest I do to fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks,  Jim
> > 
> 
> wait a couple of days then choose fix broken packages from the synaptic
> menu

huh, just browsed there, removing the name of the package, and "Index
of /ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser" is empty. Nothing there. Zip.
Devoid of useful content or files. Is it deceased? Joined the choir
eternal? Formerly among the living? Expired? A dead parrot? :) Ric



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