Hi Jason! On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: > > > It would be useful, Jason, to understand what the message means: > > It means an error that is not understood by the code was generated by the > lookup. An error that is not 'name not found' or 'service not found'. > I've never seen this prior to the new libc6.. > > Lets try to capture the error code form getaddrinfo and see whats up. > > http://auric.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.3.19.1_i386.deb > > Has a version which ought to print out a number in brackets that can be > cross referenced to /usr/include/netdb.h (the EAI_ defines) to determine > what code glibc is spitting out, we can then investigate glibc's source to > determine why it would spit that out, then figure out WTF is wrong. [...] Failed to fetch http://forcix.cx/debian/Packages Something wicked happend resolving 'forcix.cx:http' (-3) [...] which is according to /usr/include/netdb.h # define EAI_AGAIN -3 /* Temporary failure in name resolution. */ Maybe apt should simply retry after all the other stuff got downloaded? yours, peter -- PGP encrypted messages preferred. http://www.palfrader.org/
