On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 01:06:18PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I just had a catastrophic crash which necessitated reinstalling Debian. I > had been running v-7.2,but decided to upgrade to v-7.10 with a complete > install. > > Now when I update the repositories, regardless of the tool, Synaptic or > Aptitude, I get the following errors: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources: > 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80] > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/contrib/source/Sources: > 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80] > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/non-free/source/Sources: > 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80] > E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones > used instead. > E: Couldn't rebuild package cache > > I do not get these errors if I comment out the deb-src lines in the > sources.list.
Those are IPv6 addresses. I would guess that you don't have an IPv6 connection available to you, or it's misconfigured. in /etc/gai.conf, uncomment this line #precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100 And your system will prefer IPv4 addressing. -dsr-