I'm also seeing this problem. Here's my apt-proxy-v2.conf and some detailed output. I hope this helps.
$ cat /etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-v2.conf [DEFAULT] ;; All times are in seconds, but you can add a suffix ;; for minutes(m), hours(h) or days(d) ;; Server IP to listen on ;address = 192.168.0.254 ;; Server port to listen on port = 9999 ;; Control files (Packages/Sources/Contents) refresh rate ;; ;; Minimum time between attempts to refresh a file min_refresh_delay = 1h ;; Minimum age of a file before attempting an update (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED) ;min_age = 23h ;; Uncomment to make apt-proxy continue downloading even if all ;; clients disconnect. This is probably not a good idea on a ;; dial up line. ;; complete_clientless_downloads = 1 ;; Debugging settings. ;; for all debug information use this: ;; debug = all:9 ;debug = all:4 db:0 debug = all:9 db:7 ;; Debugging remote python console ;; Do not enable in an untrusted environment ;telnet_port = 9998 ;telnet_user = apt-proxy ;telnet_password = secret ;; Network timeout when retrieving from backend servers timeout = 15 ;; Cache directory for apt-proxy cache_dir = /var/cache/apt-proxy ;; Use passive FTP? (default=on) ;passive_ftp = on ;; Use HTTP proxy? ;http_proxy = host:port ;; Enable HTTP pipelining within apt-proxy (for test purposes) ;disable_pipelining=0 ;;-------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Cache housekeeping ;; Time to perform periodic housekeeping: ;; - delete files that have not been accessed in max_age ;; - scan cache directories and update internal tables cleanup_freq = 1d ;; Maximum age of files before deletion from the cache (seconds) max_age = 120d ;; Maximum number of versions of a .deb to keep per distribution max_versions = 4 ;; Add HTTP backends dynamicaly if not already defined? (default=on) ;dynamic_backends = on ;;--------------------------------------------------------------- ;;--------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Backend servers ;; ;; Place each server in its own [section] ;[main] ;backends = ; ftp://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian [debian] backends = ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian ftp://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian rsync://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian [security] backends = http://security.debian.org [non-US] backends = rsync://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian-non-US ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US $ $ sudo apt-get install cdrecord Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: wodim Suggested packages: xcdroast cdrtools-doc cdrkit-doc The following NEW packages will be installed wodim The following packages will be upgraded: cdrecord 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 526 not upgraded. Need to get 395kB of archives. After unpacking 221kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Errhttp://localhost sid/main cdrecord 5:1.0~pre4-1 404 file not found on backend Errhttp://localhost sid/main wodim 5:1.0~pre4-1 404 file not found on backend Failed to fetch http://localhost:9999/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0~pre4-1_all.deb 404 file not found on backend Failed to fetch http://localhost:9999/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0~pre4-1_powerpc.deb 404 file not found on backend E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? $ $ sudo tail -F /var/log/apt-proxy.log [10 lines deleted...] 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [Request] New Request, queued=0 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Header: Host: localhost:9999 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Header: Connection: keep-alive 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Header: User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Headers: Host: localhost:9999, Connection: keep-alive, User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [Request] Request: GET /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb backend=debian uri=/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] backend: debian [<apt_proxy.apt_proxy.BackendServer instance at 0xf7c0fa08>, <apt_proxy.apt_proxy.BackendServer instance at 0xf7c0fa30>, <apt_proxy.apt_proxy.BackendServer instance at 0xf7c0fa58>] 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] New Cache entry: pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [CacheEntry] start download:pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [DownloadQueuePerClient] Adding new queue for client id 7 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [DownloadQueue] start next download (debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb) 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [DownloadQueue] creating new fetcher 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [fetcher] fetcher start:cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [Fetcher] Downloading: /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [fetcher] Connecting to backend server (debian) ftp://ftp.au.debian.org:21 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [Request] New Request, queued=1 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Header: Host: localhost:9999 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Header: Connection: keep-alive 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Header: User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] Headers: Host: localhost:9999, Connection: keep-alive, User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [Request] Request: GET /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb backend=debian uri=/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] backend: debian [<apt_proxy.apt_proxy.BackendServer instance at 0xf7c0fa08>, <apt_proxy.apt_proxy.BackendServer instance at 0xf7c0fa30>, <apt_proxy.apt_proxy.BackendServer instance at 0xf7c0fa58>] 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [debug] New Cache entry: pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [CacheEntry] start download:pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [DownloadQueue] queue file debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] [ftp_client] Got control connection, using passive ftp 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] [Fetcher] Connected to ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] [Fetcher] downloading:pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb mtime:None 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] --> 220 ProFTPD Server (PlanetMirror FTP2) [203.16.234.85] 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] <-- USER anonymous 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] --> 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password. 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] <-- PASS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] --> 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply. 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] <-- TYPE I 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] --> 200 Type set to I 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] <-- MDTM /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] --> 550 /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb: No such file or directory 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [ftp_client] ftp fetch of Mtime failed: ['550 /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb: No such file or directory'] code:550 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [fetcher] (/debian) file not found: pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Fetcher] download_failed: (404) file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [CacheEntry] download_failure /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb: (404) file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Request] finishCode: 404, file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Request] finish. Queued: 0 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [cacheEntry] Last request removed 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Backend] entry_done: pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0%7epre4-1_all.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [DownloadQueue] download failed: file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [DownloadQueue] start next download (debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb) 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [DownloadQueue] keeping backend server 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [fetcher] fetcher start:wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Fetcher] Downloading: /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Fetcher] downloading:pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb mtime:None 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] <-- MDTM /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] --> 550 /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb: No such file or directory 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [ftp_client] ftp fetch of Mtime failed: ['550 /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb: No such file or directory'] code:550 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [fetcher] (/debian) file not found: pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Fetcher] download_failed: (404) file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [CacheEntry] download_failure /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb: (404) file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Request] finishCode: 404, file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Request] finish. Queued: 0 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [cacheEntry] Last request removed 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [Backend] entry_done: pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [DownloadQueue] download failed: file not found on backend 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [FTPClient,client] [DownloadQueue] download queue is empty 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] [Channel] Client connection closed 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] Top 10: 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 279 WeakKeyDictionary 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 80 Exception 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 35 Ephemeral 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 29 Logger 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 24 StandardError 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 24 Protocol 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 19 ProtocolToConsumerAdapter 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 17 Warning 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 17 ValueError 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [Channel,1,127.0.0.1] 17 FileType 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] [DownloadQueue] closing fetcher [(debian) ftp://ftp.au.debian.org:21] 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] [Fetcher] disconnect pool/main/c/cdrkit/wodim_1.0%7epre4-1_powerpc.deb 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] [ftp_client] disconnecting 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] <-- QUIT 2006/09/17 00:12 WST [-] [DownloadQueuePerClient] Removing queue for client id 7 And... $ wget ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0~pre4-1_all.deb --00:16:12-- ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.0~pre4-1_all.deb => `cdrecord_1.0~pre4-1_all.deb' Resolving ftp.au.debian.org... 203.16.234.85, 203.16.234.86 Connecting to ftp.au.debian.org|203.16.234.85|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR cdrecord_1.0~pre4-1_all.deb ... done. Length: 1,110 (1.1K) (unauthoritative) 100%[=================================================================================>] 1,110 --.--K/s 00:16:17 (25.71 KB/s) - `cdrecord_1.0~pre4-1_all.deb' saved [1110] $ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]