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[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 19:26 +1000, Basil Chupin 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?

Just beat me, go ahead and beat me.. I admit it, I won't do that
again. :) Ric



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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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