Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-18 Thread Bob Proulx
David Wright wrote: > Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com): > > When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all > > three of the above in some order. If your system is IPv6 capable it > >... > > Thanks for that clear exposition. I myself have had no problem with > these differ

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-16 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 16 May 2015, Brian wrote: A comparison of the outputs from 'apt-config dump' on both laptops might give something. alas no! after copying the /etc/apt directory from laptop2 to my laptop, the only difference is ==> diff apt-config_dump.ch8 apt-config_dump.mynb 132c132

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-16 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 May 2015 at 22:03:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com): > > > When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all > > three of the above in some order. If your system is IPv6 capable it > > will prefer the IPv6 address and always use it.

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com): > When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all > three of the above in some order. If your system is IPv6 capable it > will prefer the IPv6 address and always use it. If not then it will > select one of the two IPv4 addresses and use

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
David Wright wrote: > I noticed that on repeating the former, I got a very different file, > and this might be because ftp.us.debian.org had resolved to a different > IPv4 address (but IPv6 was the same). $ host ftp.us.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.61.240.89 ftp.us.debian.org

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com): > hi David, > At least for that problem I found the explanation, and was able to > reproduce it on > my personal web server. I imported the index.html from the us and fr sites, > and the > 3 files, Just try > > wget http://frenki

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > You are currently using: > > > > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main > > > > That is okay. Good! But for the purpose of this task change that to > > a different but still valid mirror. This would be a good time to try > > out the new http redi

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 14 May 2015, David Wright wrote: . . . $ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages --2015-05-14 11:28:30-- http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages Resolving ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)... 128.61.240.89, 64.50

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com): > On Wed, 13 May 2015, David Wright wrote: > > >What happens if you perform this sort of conversation: > >. . . > >~ $ wget > >http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages > >~ $ md5sum Packages > >~ $ wget http://ftp

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 May 2015 at 12:55:16 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > You are currently using: > > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main > > That is okay. Good! But for the purpose of this task change that to > a different but still valid mirror. This would be a good time to try > out the new

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 May 2015 at 14:33:49 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 2015, Brian wrote: > > >Do we assume the problem laptop and laptop2 have the same versions of > >apt? 'dpkg -l apt' for that. > > yes: 0.9.7.9+deb7u7 > It's the 1st thing I checked when I found this difference of b

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com): > On Wed, 13 May 2015, David Wright wrote: > > >What happens if you perform this sort of conversation: > >. . . > >~ $ wget > >http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages > >~ $ md5sum Packages > >~ $ wget http://ftp

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 14 May 2015, Brian wrote: Do we assume the problem laptop and laptop2 have the same versions of apt? 'dpkg -l apt' for that. yes: 0.9.7.9+deb7u7 It's the 1st thing I checked when I found this difference of behaviuor. I may-be forgot to say that the problem occurs with apt-get as

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 May 2015 at 08:54:00 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > >That is okay. Good! But for the purpose of this task change that to > >a different but still valid mirror. This would be a good time to try > >out the new http redirector which has just r

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 13 May 2015, David Wright wrote: What happens if you perform this sort of conversation: . . . ~ $ wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages ~ $ md5sum Packages ~ $ wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease ~ $ grep 854af4d1ea9bce473bd8

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 14 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: . . . Good point. If the redirector is not permanently available, what is the point of it? One is surely better off with a fast, near, high availability mirror? I suppose the answer is that newer mirrors might be even faster. But it might be worth having

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 14 May 2015 10:20:23 Brian wrote: > On Thu 14 May 2015 at 00:24:19 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 14 May 2015 00:05:44 Brian wrote: > > > To clarify my second comment: > > > > > > choose-mirror (2.62) unstable; urgency=medium > > > * Update Mirrors.masterlist > > > *

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 May 2015 at 00:24:19 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2015 00:05:44 Brian wrote: > > > > To clarify my second comment: > > > > choose-mirror (2.62) unstable; urgency=medium > > * Update Mirrors.masterlist > > * This update includes adding httpredir.debian.org, whic

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 14 May 2015 00:51:38 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150513_2054+0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 May 2015 19:55:16 Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > I have still the same problem with "Hash Sum mismatch" > > > > Do you have any idea on how to fix it? > >

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 13 May 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: That is okay. Good! But for the purpose of this task change that to a different but still valid mirror. This would be a good time to try out the new http redirector which has just recently become an official Debian resource.[1] deb http://httpredir.deb

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Wed 13 May 2015 at 20:54:52 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > We need to be offered this during a netinstall. I did a netinstall > > yesterday, > > and as usual was offered my bhoice of mirror in the UK. I chose my usual > > because over the years it has

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150513_2054+0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 13 May 2015 19:55:16 Bob Proulx wrote: > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > I have still the same problem with "Hash Sum mismatch" > > > Do you have any idea on how to fix it? > > > > Is your system behind a proxy cache of some sort? This pro

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 14 May 2015 00:05:44 Brian wrote: > On Wed 13 May 2015 at 23:30:27 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 May 2015 23:15:36 Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 13 May 2015 at 20:54:52 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > We need to be offered this during a netinstall. I did a netinstall > > >

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 May 2015 at 23:30:27 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 13 May 2015 23:15:36 Brian wrote: > > On Wed 13 May 2015 at 20:54:52 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > We need to be offered this during a netinstall. I did a netinstall > > > yesterday, and as usual was offered my bhoice of m

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 13 May 2015 23:15:36 Brian wrote: > On Wed 13 May 2015 at 20:54:52 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > We need to be offered this during a netinstall. I did a netinstall > > yesterday, and as usual was offered my bhoice of mirror in the UK. I > > chose my usual because over the years it ha

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 May 2015 at 20:54:52 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 13 May 2015 19:55:16 Bob Proulx wrote: > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > I have still the same problem with "Hash Sum mismatch" > > > Do you have any idea on how to fix it? > > > > Is your system behind a proxy cache of some

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com): > On Wed, 13 May 2015, David Wright wrote: > > >After you've tried the usual things like clearing /var/lib/apt/lists > >and trying, say, ftp.uk.debian.org in your sources.list, I'd be > >interested whether you still get the problem if you substi

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 13 May 2015 19:55:16 Bob Proulx wrote: > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > I have still the same problem with "Hash Sum mismatch" > > Do you have any idea on how to fix it? > > Is your system behind a proxy cache of some sort? This problem is one > sometimes seen when files of different

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/13/2015 05:15 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: [snip] > Anyway, I removed them, and after that the reference to wheezy in > apt-get update disappeared, but I have still the same problem with > "Hash Sum mismatch" Do you have any idea on how to fix i

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I have still the same problem with "Hash Sum mismatch" > Do you have any idea on how to fix it? Is your system behind a proxy cache of some sort? This problem is one sometimes seen when files of different ages are cached and served causing the entire set of files to b

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 13 May 2015, David Wright wrote: After you've tried the usual things like clearing /var/lib/apt/lists and trying, say, ftp.uk.debian.org in your sources.list, I'd be interested whether you still get the problem if you substitute http: ftp: in sources.list. I already tried all the u

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com): > Anyway, I removed them, and after that the reference to wheezy in > apt-get update disappeared, but I have still the same problem > with "Hash Sum mismatch" > Do you have any idea on how to fix it? After you've tried the usual things

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 12 May 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: Check for additional configuration files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* which I expect you to find a file referencing linux.dropbox.com wheezy. At a guess I expect that file to be owned by a package. *If* there is a file there *then* this will say what pack

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Get: 11 http://linux.dropbox.com wheezy/main i386 Packages [1,150 B] > > why these references to wheezy? Check for additional configuration files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* which I expect you to find a file referencing linux.dropbox.com wheezy. At a guess I expect that

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-12 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 11 May 2015, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: (unless the problem comes from my laptop config, but I don't see how, as I have no problem with the Wheezy sources.list) It seems I was wrong, as I tried "apt-get update" with a jessie sources.list on an other amd64 laptop, and I got no error.

aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi everybody, I tried to upgrade my amd64 laptop to jessie, and still have the same problem already reported 1 month ago. I expected that it will be fixed when Jessie became the stable release (unless the problem comes from my laptop config, but I don't see how, as I have no problem with the Wh