Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:54:31AM -0500, Louis Wust wrote: Louis, thanks for your helpful reply. In answering one of your questions I may have solved the problem. > On 1/27/16, Haines Brown wrote: > This is strange for a number of reasons: > 1) How did Pin: and Pin-Priority: wind up on the sa

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Brian
On Sat 30 Jan 2016 at 09:28:23 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > out. Perhaps I have to re-install Sid. Probably best. For you and for us. :)

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Louis Wust
On 1/27/16, Haines Brown wrote: > My sense there is something strange going on, but I don't want to mess > things up more by mindless experimenting. Unfortunately all that I have for you is some mindless experimenting! But hopefully something in what I've written here will be fruitful. You've me

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 09:28:34AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: My question remains unanswered: on a Sid machine lacking systemd, after an installation of pulseaudio and pavucontrol, aptitude or apt-get connects to sever but fails to fetch from ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/InRelease The

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-27 Thread Haines Brown
Cindy-Sue, your caution appreciated, but I too am in the habit of deleting lock files. But in this case, it did not help. I also adventurously gave the partial directory 755 permissions rather than 700, but still no go. In my ignorance, what strikes me as a problem is that there is no "_apt" in /e

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/27/16, Haines Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 05:39:36AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:19:09 -0500 Haines Brown >> wrote: >> >> ># aptitude update >> >Err: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease >> > temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.de

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-27 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 05:39:36AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:19:09 -0500 Haines Brown > wrote: > > ># aptitude update > >Err: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease > > temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.debian.org' > >W: Failed to fetch > >

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:19:09 -0500 Haines Brown wrote: ># aptitude update >Err: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease > temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.debian.org' >W: Failed to fetch > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/InRelease: > tempora

failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-26 Thread Haines Brown
This continues a thread about sound in Sid, but is really a different issue. My copy of Sid, less systemd, was doing fine until I decided to skype:i386 on my amd64 machine (no skype:amd64 available) and then pulseaudio and pauvucontrol. Installing skype no problem, but I had trouble installing pul