On 5/5/08, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >     * From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >On 5/5/08, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> then check apt configuration files in /etc/apt/ and subdirectories
> >> (proxy or other unusual configuration settings? corrupted files?)
> >
> >I don't see any problems there.
>
> But it semms like you are using a non-working proxy (by a configuration
> file or a environement variable or some transparent preloading of socks
> libraries or something like that)
>
> >Luke:~# apt-get update
> >http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> > Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
>
> one thing that you could try is: replace in sources.list
> security.debian.org with (one of) its ip. I have just checked the
> existence of
> http://130.89.175.54/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>
> One can try a more verbose apt-get command hoping for more details in
> the error message
>
> The last idea could be
>
> strace -f -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update

Luke:~# strace -f -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update
Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
Err http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'volatile.debian.org'
Err http://www.backport.org etch-backports Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'www.backport.org'
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Ign http://www.backport.org etch-backports Release
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Ign http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release
Ign http://www.backport.org etch-backports/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Err http://www.backport.org etch-backports/main Packages
  Could not resolve 'www.backport.org'
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Ign http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/main Packages
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
  Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
Err http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/main Packages
  Could not resolve 'volatile.debian.org'
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
 Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg  Could not
resolve 'security.debian.org'
Failed to fetch
http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/etch/volatile/Release.gpg
 Could not resolve 'volatile.debian.org'
Failed to fetch
http://www.backport.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/Release.gpg  Could
not resolve 'www.backport.org'
Failed to fetch
http://www.backport.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Could not resolve 'www.backport.org'
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
Failed to fetch
http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/etch/volatile/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Could not resolve 'volatile.debian.org'
Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.backport.org
etch-backports/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/www.backport.org_debian_dists_etch-backports_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
Luke:~#

Any other ideas?  - John


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