I am only guessing:
1) Perhaps you should try one or two other sites in order to verify if this is
a persistent problem.
2) I am behind a firewall/proxy server as well. You might want to customize my
/etc/apt/apt.conf.
/* In some instances involving filenames it is possible to set the default
directory when the path is evaluated. This means you can use relative
paths within the sub scope.
The configuration directives are specified in a tree with {} designating
a subscope relative to the tag before the {}. You can further specify
a subscope using scope notation eg,
APT::Architecture "i386";
This is prefixed with the current scope. Scope notation must be used
if an option is specified on the command line with -o.
*/
// Options for the downloading routines
Acquire
{
// HTTP method configuration
http
{
Proxy "http://Proxy1.israsrv.net.il:8080";;
Timeout "120";
};
// FTP method configuration
ftp
{
Proxy "ftp://Proxy1.israsrv.net.il:8080";;
/* Required script to perform proxy login. This example should work
for tisfwtk */
ProxyLogin
{
"USER $(PROXY_USER)";
"PASS $(PROXY_PASS)";
"USER $(SITE_USER)@$(SITE):$(SITE_PORT)";
"PASS $(SITE_PASS)";
};
Timeout "120";
/* Passive mode control, proxy, non-proxy and per-host. Pasv mode
is prefered if possible */
Passive "true";
};
};
DPkg
{
// Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
}
// Pre-configure all packages before they are installed.
// (Automatically added by debconf.)
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"dpkg-preconfig --apt";};
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> Thanks for responding to my plight :-) The configuration files look as
> follows:
>
> /etc/apt/apt.conf contains two lines:
>
> // Pre-configure all packages before they are installed.
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"dpkg-preconfig --apt";};
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list contains the expected one line:
>
> deb ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
> Please note that I have also tried ftp.debian.org directly as well as
> http, which was set originally but might be expected to fail after the
> proxy installation on our system. Also I know the parameters and read the
> manpages for sources.list, I am not shure that I would handle the proxy
> correctly :-( .
>
> Here is the screen dump of my last dselect initiated update session; the
> interrupt was my Ctrl-C that was sent before the last hanging ftp got
> timed out (let me re-emphasize that ftping things manually from the same
> sites (ftp.jp.debian.org) does work):
>
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/main Packages [820kB]
> Err ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> Connection timeout
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/main Release [95B]
> Err ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/main Release
> Connection timeout
> Get:3 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages [34.7kB]
> Err ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
> Connection timeout
> Get:4 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/contrib Release [98B]
> Err ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/contrib Release
> Connection timeout
> Get:5 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages [79.8kB]
> Err ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
> Connection timeout
> Get:6 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/non-free Release [99B]
> 0% [6 unstable/non-free 0/99B 0%]
> update available list script was interrupted.
> Press RETURN to continue.
>
> If I interpret that correctly, it does find the files and starts out with
> the good intention to retrieve them, but then gets locked up somehow...
>
> Thanks again; any help appreciated!
>
> Regards, Kai
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kai Martens State University of New York at Stony Brook
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> Kamioka Observatory
> 456 Higashi-Mozumi e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kamioka-cho FAX: +81-578-5-2121
> Yoshiki-gun Tel: +81-578-5-9617
> 506-1205 Gifu-ken
> Japan
>
> homepage: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kai
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> > What is the contents of your apt configuration files (/etc/apt/apt.conf and
> > /etc/apt/sources.list)?
>
