squid-deb-proxy and VirtualBox: Failed to create host name resolver

[Michiel]

Colin Law <clanlaw <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> To answer my own question it appears that the automatic proxy
> detection does not work in the scenario above.  To fix it, in the
> VirtualBox VM I removed the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30autoproxy and
> replaced it with /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30manualproxy containing:
> 
> Acquire::http::Proxy "http://192.168.1.100:8000";
> 

Just had the same kind of problem on an 11.04 vm running on XP host. Compared
with a working 11.04 client and just removed the 30autoproxy file. After that,
worked like normal.

Michiel