http.us.debian.org resolves to several different servers. Perhaps one of them was corrupted while another was correct. I've seen the apt-get process hang when one of the servers was apparently not reachable. Repeating the apt-get command usually results in success (YMMV).
Bob On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:22:15PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > I want to try upgrading to testing (woody). First I went to the debian > site and plucked the following sources directly from them: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free > > Then I did the following: > > apt-get update > apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade > > 176 packages upgraded, 41 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. > Need to get 92.3MB of archives. After unpacking 65.3MB will be used. > > I'm good with that so I say yes... > > I am seeing the following problems: > > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libc6 2.2.2-4 > 400 Bad Request > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libncurses5 5.2.20010318-1 > Bad header line > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libldap2 2.0.7-5 > 404 Not Found > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main lilo 1:21.7-3 > 404 Not Found > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main binutils 2.11.90.0.5-1 > 404 Not Found > > > Thing about this one is a friend of mine did the exact same upgrade not > 10 minutes before me and it worked flawlessly. Ideas? How much risk is > there to go ahead and update with that many files not found? > > Then at the end of the download it spits out a ton of this: > > Fetched 85.8MB in 33m22s (42.9kB/s) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.2-4_i386.deb > 400 Bad Request > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses5_5.2.20010318-1_i386.deb > Bad header line > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05-3_i386.deb > Size mismatch > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.11b-4_i386.deb > Size mismatch > > See those "Size mismatch"? What the heck is going on? > > Is this one of those, it's too early to expect a successful dist-upgrade? > Or could there be something else going on that I don't know about that > I'm doing wrong?
