On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:24:57 you wrote: > Hi all. > > A friend whose Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS installation I'm supporting has > suddenly lost the ability to update her system. > > Both update-manager and Synaptic produce the same errors: > > W: Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg Could not > connect to ftp.citylink.co.nz:21 (202.7.6.9). - connect (111 Connection > refused) > > W: Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 > Could not connect to ftp.citylink.co.nz:21 (202.7.6.9). - connect (111 > Connection refused) > > (and so forth) > > This seems to have started 31 December (at least, that's when I got the > first request for help). > > I've found that CityLink's server can be flaky at times, but when I > tried the same update it proceeded without incident. She's tried > several more times with update-manager and then with Synaptic, to no > avail. > > She's on some kind of basic broadband plan with Orcon. > > I've thought of getting her to point to a different server, but that > wouldn't really be solving the problem. Any suggestions? TIA. > > =====Andrew > Suggest you try an international server or one other than the current one. this to get her OS updated.
Also the LTS may be at the end of life - not checked so I could be proven wrong easily. Any chances of updating her OS to a more recent version? Know this may not be necessary. Just some thoughts. Dave
