Re: [LUG] Problems with APT...

[Neil Williams <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Sewell wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Just a quick question: is anyone else having problems with their
> Debian setups?  Every time this week I have tried to "apt-get update"
> I get a tonne of connection errors regardless of which mirror I use,

I think it is something related to your own connections, - you and Bob. 
I have several systems with varying connection setups and none have had 
recurrent problems. Occasionally, one fails to get the package lists but 
it is always resolved at the next attempt.

> and then when I try to do an "apt-get upgrade" I get a bunch of
> "connection timed out" and "data socket timed out" errors.  It's
> getting to be quite irritating.

Change the time of your upgrade requests and use cron-apt to do an 
upgrade at times when the system (and your ISP's systems) are quietest.


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