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On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:26:51 +1000
Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On 13/09/11 17:05, Ric Moore wrote:
> > Is anyone else having problems with synaptic lately? I don't recall
> > seeing this behavior before where it keeps trying to hit
> > "Translations-en" and "Translations-en_US" and "Translationsindex"
> > repeatedly and repeatedly, hangs for a bit then hits on them again.
> > Then it utterly fails. This is with natty, BTW. Status on each
> > reads "failed" during the reload process.
> >
> > The reload takes forever, then there are no upgrades noted to
> > apply. An apt-get upgrade loads packages and installs them just
> > fine. This is making me nutz. I hope I didn't break it. But, if I
> > did, how to fix? Ric
> 
> Simple answer, old boy: time to change to another distro.
> 
> Ah, but haven't you already switched over to Minties by now?
> 
> BC
> 
Its the same on Mint 11. Has been like this for a while, probably a
couple of weeks even.

n.