Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Art Sackett
> As for transparent proxies, etc. what I've got here is ... egg on my face. Never mind... -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Art Sackett
onnected to a bridged fiber modem, which gets photons from a community fiber network managed by the county. I have no particular reason to trust them, but it's the internet we're talking about, so... -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/

Re: Only boot tty

2019-10-17 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:36:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Are you sure it's the mirror, and not some kind of "transparent" HTTP > proxy on your end? Workplace, ISP, McDonald's wifi, communist government > firewall, ...? Of course not. I'm on a community

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-16 Thread Art Sackett
For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're having, the workaround is to create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: Acquire { http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"; }; This changes apt's HTTP

Re: Only boot tty

2019-10-16 Thread Art Sackett
PS: I've just submitted a bug report (via reportbug) for this. -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/

Re: Only boot tty

2019-10-16 Thread Art Sackett
and populating it with: Acquire { http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"; }; Bingo! 'apt update' and 'apt upgrade' both work fine. Apparently, the mirrors are getting nauseated by the User-Agent string. That ain't right! -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/

Re: Only boot tty

2019-10-16 Thread Art Sackett
ormation, I think. I'm just about to start packet capturing to find out what apt is seeing that's freaking it out. If anything good comes of it I'll make more noise here. -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/

'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-15 Thread Art Sackett
r AMD64. I'm stumped. Can anyone tell me if this is something that I can fix, and how I might go about it? -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/

HP Vectra/HP LAN adapter problem

1998-08-25 Thread Art Sackett
Greetings, all: Here's the scenario: Intalled an older (ISA) HP LAN adapter in an HP Vectra 5/133, then installed Debian 2.0 from CD. During setup, when I went install the hp.o module "into the kernel" during drivers setup, it barked at me "device or resource busy". Neither the I/O range (0x300 -