Backport - update problem

[vinoman]

Today's update brought up these errors:

Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... slation-en Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... tion-en_US Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

Is there a problem with backports on MInt 13? I'm running Mint 13 with backports to Mint 14. Has this cause trouble for other users?

[vinoman]

I unchecked backports in synaptic and I get this error:

Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... tion-en_US Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... slation-en Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... tion-en_US Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... slation-en Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... tion-en_US Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... slation-en Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Is there been a problem with updates lately?

[henryz]

Same problem here. Has been acting this way intermittently for several weeks, now.

Here are the errors:

Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/Release.gpg Could not connect to packages.linuxmint.com:80 (204.45.82.194). - connect (110: Connection timed out)
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... 4/Packages Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... 4/Packages Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... 6/Packages Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... 6/Packages Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... 6/Packages Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... 4/Packages Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... tion-en_US Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... slation-en Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... tion-en_US Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... slation-en Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... tion-en_US Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/may ... slation-en Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Not a network problem on this end & I can fetch those indices in a browser. What gives??

[jazz.h]

Same here...

[sammiev]

This is the only way I could get by Failed to fetch.

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[henryz]

sammiev's workaround seems to have fixed it (for now). Now to figure out why....

Anyway - tnx!

[vinoman]

This is the only way I could get by Failed to fetch.

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Yes, it helped me too. Some things installed. This could be a temporary server issue that will be resolved.