I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 20 Apr 2011, at 16:57, David Kalnischkies <646...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> The question is not if its another application at fault - it a message > from APT all front-ends see if the conditions are meet. The question > is > just if these conditions are likely to be hit: The answer to this is > no > as this message was already changed "recently" (2009) to include the > errno and the string connected to this of the underlying method used. > The message from APT is just "something wicked happened" which isn't > the > best, but somehow an old tradition for error messages in APT to be > "wicked" than nobody could imagine a better message so far. > > The message you really complain here is "No address associated with > hostname" which doesn't come from APT (directly) but from the method > getaddrinfo() from (e)(g)libc. The most common error conditions > (EAI_NONAME, EAI_SERVICE and EAI_AGAIN) from it are captured and a > "better" message is provided, but for all other (most notable the one > here: EAI_NODATA) APT doesn't try to provide one as so far nobody > knows > how to describe it in a way that someone could understand it without > deeper knowledge of networks who happens to don't understand the > message > from getaddrinfo… > > But if someone has a good one: Feel free to suggest it! Maybe, we > should > even change it in (e)(g)libc then… > > > P.S.: That the message was changed in 2009 was a result of a bug in > eglibc triggered by a missing /etc/hostname, before and since then i > have never seen it in real life and the bug obviously only existed > in debian unstable… > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of > Papercutters, which is subscribed to One Hundred Paper Cuts. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646834 > > Title: > APT gives unclear error message: "something wicked happened" when > hostname of archive cannot be found > > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: > Triaged > Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > When something wicked happens when trying to download packages, this > is the error message one gets: > > "something wicked happened resolving 'dk.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 > - No address associated with hostname)" > > This error message does not say anything about whether the error is > local (ie. something the user has any chance to do anything about) or > related to other things (is the host server down? Or is the DNS- > server > failing to do its deed?) > > Generally, the text isn't very newbie friendly -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646834 Title: APT gives unclear error message: "something wicked happened" when hostname of archive cannot be found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/646834/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
