<div>On 10/25/07, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <<a href="mailto:geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com">geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> NoOp spake thusly on: > Sounds very much like the problem that I had with one of my systems. For > some reason /etc/apt/sources.list did not get updated to include: > > deb <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/"> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> gutsy main restricted universe > multiverse IMO, <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com">archive.ubuntu.com</a> is about the worst place to point your sources.list files. There are dozens of mirrors. The main one is almost always slower. And with everyone upgrading at around the same time, that only made the problem worse I'm sure. Oh and I don't upgrade. I do clean installs. Upgrading is against my religion, :) -- Scott <a href="http://angrykeyboarder.com">http://angrykeyboarder.com</a> I've never used an OS I didn't (dis)like. ©2007 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wites Wesewved Hi Scott</blockquote><div> been using the main server myself and went through the dist upgrade to 7.04 on same pc without much bother. This is the first dist upgrade that has given any probs and still have 2 pcs to go. will sort out the first before contemplating the others James </div> </div>