This affects me as well, started a few days ago. Extremely annoying, updates take forever to download (literally, days). Possibly caused by changes in my ISP configuration? It is a Verizon DSL broadband and I am on the East Coast US.
Anyway, the changes to APT configuration suggested by David did not help me. What is wierd, when the apt downloads are in progress (either updating package indices or downloading actual packages) they occupy the whole connection bandwidth here, i.e., the downstream transfer rates from servers are in the 300-600KB/sec range (confirmed by iftop) which looks normal for my 5Mbit/s ADSL connection. However, apt progress indicator only shows 10-30KB/sec download speed at best. It's as if 99.9% of the packets received are being discarded by apt. There is no errors in any of the logs, nor in dmesg output and ifconfig shows dropped packets / errors counts for the interface all stay at zero. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977906 Title: Updating packages stalls To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/977906/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
