On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:02:27PM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote: > On 10/10/07, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sometimes when downloading packages with http://localhost:9988/blah > > lines in sources.list, aptitude waits, saying "Connecting to server", > > and then eventually complains that the connection timed out. Other > > times it works fine. > > > > Why should this be? > > It's hard to know why this would be, as it could occur for many > reasons: if the download completely failed, or if the download is just > proceeding too slowly. The error messages from aptitude are very > limited, so to find out the real reason you'll need to look in the log > file (/var/log/debtorrent/debtorrent-client.log). Try and find some > relevant lines near where the error happened (it might help to search > for the name of the package you were trying to download). If you can > send the relevant sections of the log file to me, I might be able to > help more.
Oh dear, I don't know where in the thousands of lines of log file I should be looking. If it happens again, I'll send you the relevant bits of log. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
