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Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya

Post by Schrödinger's Cat »

I've been having troubles updating for the past week or so. Some of the updates go fine, but a lot of the downloads fail. Now it looks like there are two repositories causing problems...

I'm running Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon 64-bit.

Here's the error message I get:

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GPG error: ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/Release.gpg  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/binary-amd64/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/binary-amd64/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/binary-amd64/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/binary-i386/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/binary-i386/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/binary-i386/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/i18n/Translation-en_CA  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/i18n/Translation-en_CA  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/i18n/Translation-en_CA  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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zerozero

Re: Failed to fetch... Maya? I don't have Maya!

Post by zerozero »

can you please open a terminal and give us the output of

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inxi -Sr
Schrödinger's Cat

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by Schrödinger's Cat »

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System:    Host: turnip Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise partner
           deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-talkplugin.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main
p.s. I edited my first post when I realized that Maya IS Precise Pangolin. newb moment :)
zerozero

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by zerozero »

yeahh :mrgreen: anyway

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ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org squeeze
shouldn't be in your sources.list unless you are waiting for a breakage :shock: that is a debian repo and shouldn't be used with ubuntu-based systems.

regarding packages.linuxmint i can't reach it tonight either.
squeezy

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by squeezy »

zerozero wrote:regarding packages.linuxmint i can't reach it tonight either.
I've started using a mirror for the packages.linuxmint.com repos. Find one near you here, http://www.linuxmint.com/mirrors.php. Look in the Mirrored Repositories section of this page.

Also, don't forget to update your preferences file, in particular this line:

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Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700
Change the packages.linuxmint.com entry to match the name of the mirror you're using.
Schrödinger's Cat

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by Schrödinger's Cat »

So if I wanted to use the one from Waterloo (Canada), I click on the link and get http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint/

How do I turn that into a repository entry? Just replace packages.linuxmint.com with mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint ?
zerozero

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by zerozero »

you can do that within synaptic
Image

edit: this way you're not *updating* the /etc/apt/preferences file to match the new repo, so you have to manually change the rule as squeezy shows you bellow :D
squeezy

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by squeezy »

No, you want to use the one listed on that mirrors page,

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http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages/
If you're editing your sources.list file directly, replace packages.linuxmint. com with the string above.

Your new entry would look like this:

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deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages/ maya main upstream import
Then update your preferences file to so the packages.linuxmint.com entry looks like this:

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Package: *
Pin: origin mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Pin-Priority: 700
EDIT: zerozero shows the easy way :D That method does not update the preferences file so you still need to do that.
anjanaya

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by anjanaya »

I had the same Problem and was solved by using this, Cheers!!!
Really appreciate the help.
Schrödinger's Cat

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by Schrödinger's Cat »

One thing I'll mention, is that not all the same updates were available on the mirror as the ones in the original packages.linuxmint.com ... But I'm sure that it's just a one or two day delay, and I don't think that will make a huge difference in my life.
zerozero

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by zerozero »

packages.linuxmint is up again 8)
blueghost

Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by blueghost »

Down for me at the moment:
Could not connect to packages.linuxmint.com:80 (204.45.82.194). - connect (110: Connection timed out)
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Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by ImpWarfare »

packages.linuxmint.com - is down for me, but changing the mirrrors helped, choose the local mirror if it's possible on your end, mine however is currently set to the mirrorservice since that's the local british server and that helped me to update the system.
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Re: Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/m

Post by eanfrid »

As this the main Mint repo link, packages.mintlinux.com gets obviously overloaded with requests at times. So choosing an alternate repo closer to you is probably the best choice on the long term.
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