On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > I went to run apt-get update (like i do at elast once a week) and got a pile > of reponses like this: > > Get:3 ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/contrib Release > Err ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/contrib Release > Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) > > is there something i should be doing differently, or is this a transitory > error?
Just now I was trying to look at that ftp site with netscape and could not connect so I changed to ftp.us.debian.org, which is available at the moment. ...RickM...