On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:10:09 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > A few days ago I installed Debian Lenny, i.e., current testing, on my > system replacing stable. It was a fresh install, not an upgrade. > > Everything is functioning fine. But when I try to run netselect-apt to > find the fastest mirror, I get: > > "netselect was unable to find a mirror, this probably means that > you are behind a firewall and it is blocking traceroute." > > I haven't done any tinkering with firewalls, what I installed is what I > got. What is this problem?
Can you use traceroute from the command line, e.g. traceroute ftp.se.debian.org This should show you all the intermediate points for a connection from your computer to the Swedish Debian mirror (napoleon.acc.umu.se). If this does not work then maybe there will be an error message to help us to figure out what is wrong. > Second, I used the mirrors from my stable install, so my sources.list > file has entries like this: > > deb http://ftp.port80.se/debian/ lenny main contrib > > Works fine. But I want to replace lenny with testing, as I want to be > permanently on testing, even after lenny becomes stable. So I replace > above with > > deb http://ftp.port80.se/debian/ testing main contrib > > And zilch, apt-get is not able to read the repo at all? If ftp.port80.se is a proper mirror, then it should have "testing" as a symlink pointing to "lenny", so your new line should work. I had a quick look and it seems to me that ftp.port80.se/debian/ is set up correctly. What is the exact error message that you get from "apt-get update"? If the problem persists then I would simply switch to one of the official mirrors: http://www.debian.org/mirror/official (Note: Packages in "contrib" normally require packages from "non-free" to work, so they will be of little use to you unless you also put "non-free" in your list.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
