No Internet on new install [SOLVED]

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triplemaya · #1 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 16:51

Hi. New installation of Squeeze. No Internet. I have googled and browsed but all the responses seem highly complex, involving editing files. But elsewhere it says "In effect, the goal of NetworkManager is to make networking Just Work."

What should I do next?

I don't really understand these commands, but they always seem to be asked for

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ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:d4:33:4b  
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fed4:334b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1717 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1316380 (1.2 MiB)  TX bytes:264516 (258.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:27 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)


lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)

_Alex_ · #2 Post by **_Alex_** » 2011-05-20 16:54

Does look like you have an ip address from your router.

Did you try putting for example 74.125.91.105 or in a browser ?
If that works, it is a DNS problem and the network works...

Alex.

triplemaya wrote:Hi. New installation of Squeeze. No Internet. I have googled and browsed but all the responses seem highly complex, involving editing files. But elsewhere it says "In effect, the goal of NetworkManager is to make networking Just Work."

What should I do next?

I don't really understand these commands, but they always seem to be asked for

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:18:d4:33:4b
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::226fed4:334b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1717 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1316380 (1.2 MiB) TX bytes:264516 (258.3 KiB)
Interrupt:27

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 B) TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)

mvdan · #3 Post by **mvdan** » 2011-05-20 17:21

The problem may not come from the computer or the operating system itself. Are you connected to the internet directly or is there any kind of server, firewall, etc? Sometimes connection failures are due to these when not well configured.

Just mentioning that because I can hardly believe that Squeeze would have any kind of software problems with networking. In most cases these problems come from hardware or internet connection issues

triplemaya · #4 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 17:34

Hi. Not well at present, witness the fact that I am posting on this forum from the problem computer. Clearly I have Internet connection!! Durr. What I do not have is updates.

I discovered I did not have updates I went to the icon on the taskbar and it says under Wired Network device not managed. Then I posted on this forum for help.

When I go to updates in Update Manager it cannot connect. The first time I did it I could access the error messages, but now each time I do it I just get an error message that says 'an internal error has occured and the operation has been aborted' and when I click ok the update manager closes. When I do apt-get update it just hangs.

kedaha · #5 Post by **kedaha** » 2011-05-20 17:54

triplemaya wrote:Hi. Not well at present, witness the fact that I am posting on this forum from the problem computer. Clearly I have Internet connection!! Durr. What I do not have is updates.

I discovered I did not have updates I went to the icon on the taskbar and it says under Wired Network device not managed. Then I posted on this forum for help.

When I go to updates in Update Manager it cannot connect. The first time I did it I could access the error messages, but now each time I do it I just get an error message that says 'an internal error has occurred and the operation has been aborted' and when I click ok the update manager closes. When I do apt-get update it just hangs.

The reason it says "Wired Network device is not managed" is explained in http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager
No updates? Did you install perhaps without a connection to the net so apt didn't get configured?
Check output for:

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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

triplemaya · #6 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 20:23

Hi. Thanks.

The reason it says "Wired Network device is not managed" is explained in http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager

I know it sounds really pathetic, but I have read this page several times, and I don't get it.

No updates? Did you install perhaps without a connection to the net so apt didn't get configured?

When I was installing debian, the window was bigger than the screen (a weird glitch, as the screen is pretty big - 1920 x 1200 -- shades of linux past when the installer simply could not do the display properly) so I could not see the bottom of the window. I kept just hitting enter when I thought I was done with each screen, but I hardly felt properly in touch with what I was doing!

Check output for: cat /etc/apt/sources.list

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20110206-07:10]/ squeeze main

hotkee · #7 Post by **hotkee** » 2011-05-20 20:48

triplemaya wrote:cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20110206-07:10]/ squeeze main

You need to update your sources.list - something like

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free 
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free 

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

kedaha · #8 Post by **kedaha** » 2011-05-20 20:53

As hotkee says, you need to edit your sources list; this is why you're not getting any updates.
Using the root terminal, enter the command nano and edit the file to look like exactly as below or modify them to use a mirror if you wish( just cut & paste them):

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# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

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#

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20110206-07:10]/ squeeze main[/quote]

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.uss.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main

Use control+O (the letter, not the zero + then Enter to save followed by Control+X to exit the nano,
Now do

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# aptitude update

Now, if you want Network manager to manage your connection, edit the other file the same way:
# nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

It should look like this:

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[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=true

Exit nano as before.
It's supposed to work after restart or after you reboot:

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# /etc/init.d/network-manager restart

triplemaya · #9 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 21:11

Update

I started getting some really weird things happening. I could not open any nautilus windows. Then when I went to shut down there was some strange error. So I switched off and turned it back on again. Still no updates. So I decided to do a fresh install.

So, I'm going through the screens, and all I see is the options, there are no buttons saying OK, back, cancel, or anything, but each time I hit enter I go to a new screen. (I can't resize the window, either by grabbing the corners or by the menu. So, at each step I get the choice of options, but ok etc is not visible, I am just presuming its all there, at the bottom of the window, out of sight.)

Then at one point the message comes up 'the network connection has been disconnected'

Then I select ………. eth0

And then it says 'your connection has been established eth0

then it asks for my domain name, but this pc does not have a domain name. so I just hit enter and on we go.

Then, further along, it gives me a huge range of options, including 'detect network hardware'. So I select this. and it gets busy. and then i get the message ''the network connection has been disconnected' again.

I'm not sure that's gone well!

So then I click 'finish the installation'. Ubuntu is much much simpler than all this!! (I'm trying to migrate from ubuntu, but maybe I am just not clever enough for debian!)

So, here I am with a fresh install. Internet is working fine, but no updates. I fire up the update manager, which thinks for a while, and then gives me the error message 'an internal error has occurred and the operation has been aborted' and below that 'could not download packages information.'

So I'm no further forward.

triplemaya · #10 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 21:12

sorry, didn't see all the replies

triplemaya · #11 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 21:19

Thanks kedaha. I followed your instructions to the letter and it all worked like a charm.

Thank you very much.

Problem solved.

One last thing. I don't understand why all this happened. Did I mess up the install, or is this just something I have to be ready to do when I do a debian install?

triplemaya · #12 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 21:21

uhoh

I spoke too soon.

I get the error message:

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An error has occured and downloading has been aborted.
Error message:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_6.0squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.1.4.2+svn3283-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/console-setup/keyboard-configuration_1.68+squeeze2_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup_1.68+squeeze2_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-base_2.6.32-31_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.32-5-486_2.6.32-31_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-31_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.1.4.2+svn3283-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2011c-0squeeze1_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/isc-dhcp/isc-dhcp-client_4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2_i386.deb Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (32.1.8.216). - connect (110: Connection timed out)
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/isc-dhcp/isc-dhcp-common_4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl/libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-4squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/dnsutils_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/bind9-host_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/libisc62_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/libdns69_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/libisccc60_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/libisccfg62_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/liblwres60_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/host_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_all.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind9/libbind9-60_9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim4/exim4-config_4.72-6+squeeze2_all.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim4/exim4-base_4.72-6+squeeze2_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light_4.72-6+squeeze2_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.72-6+squeeze2_all.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-defaults/python_2.6.6-3+squeeze6_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-defaults/python-minimal_2.6.6-3+squeeze6_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apr/libapr1_1.4.2-6+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache2/apache2.2-bin_2.2.16-6+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/avahi-autoipd_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/libavahi-common-data_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/libavahi-common3_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/libavahi-core7_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/avahi-daemon_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/desktop-base/desktop-base_6.0.5squeeze1_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/firmware-linux-free_2.6.32-31_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pango1.0/libpango1.0-common_1.28.3-1+squeeze2_all.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pango1.0/libpango1.0-0_1.28.3-1+squeeze2_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm3/gdm3_2.30.5-6squeeze2_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gedit/gedit-common_2.30.4-1squeeze1_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.30.4-1squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver_2.30.0-2squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/xulrunner-1.9.1_1.9.1.16-7_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/libmozjs2d_1.9.1.16-7_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.8-1+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_3.5.16-7_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/libavahi-client3_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/libavahi-glib1_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/libavahi-gobject0_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/avahi/libavahi-ui0_0.6.27-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmodplug/libmodplug1_0.8.8.1-1+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nautilus/libnautilus-extension1_2.30.1-2squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util1_0.8.1-6+squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-vpn1_0.8.1-6+squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib2_0.8.1-6+squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pulseaudio/libpulse-mainloop-glib0_0.9.21-3+squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pulseaudio/libpulse0_0.9.21-3+squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat6/libservlet2.5-java_6.0.28-9+squeeze1_all.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.9.4-5+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webkit/libwebkit-1.0-common_1.2.7-0+squeeze1_all.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/webkit/libwebkit-1.0-2_1.2.7-0+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nautilus/nautilus-data_2.30.1-2squeeze1_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nautilus/nautilus_2.30.1-2squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.8.1-6+squeeze1_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl/openssl_0.9.8o-4squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.2_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble_0.9.15-1+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-liberation/ttf-liberation_1.05.2.20091019-4squeeze1_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vino/vino_2.28.2-2+squeeze1_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/x11-xserver-utils/x11-xserver-utils_7.5+3_i386.deb Unable to connect to security.debian.org:http:
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-common_1.7.7-13_all.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xephyr_1.7.7-13_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-core_1.7.7-13_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.13.0-6_i386.deb 404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/usb-modeswitch-data/usb-modeswitch-data_20100826-1+squeeze0_all.deb 404  Not Found

but the update manager looks as if it is going to work. it has a great big list of things to install, which before it did not.

hotkee · #13 Post by **hotkee** » 2011-05-20 21:25

You could go into System->Administration->Software Sources

and choose a different download server and then retry.

where are you in the world?

triplemaya · #14 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 21:30

Hi hotkey. I just tried it again and it just worked!?

I'm in the uk.

I think everything is sorted now.

So I just have the one question remaining, why did all this happen? Obviously this is not part of a standard install. Is there something I should have done different in the install? Or was I just unlucky?

kedaha · #15 Post by **kedaha** » 2011-05-20 22:07

There is seldom any need to do a fresh install: If, after reading information about Debian you need further clarification, then post on the forums about issues such as setting a correct screen resolution prior to a GUI installation and network configuration. With Debian, one has to take a little more time; it doesn't necessarily auto-configure which gives users much greater control over their computers.
If you wish to change your software sources from the USA server to the UK server, rather than edit your sources list file, just open Synaptic, click Settings, Repositories then Debian Software then click on the little arrows beside Download from: Server for United States and change it to Server for United kingdom.

kedaha · #16 Post by **kedaha** » 2011-05-20 22:17

P.S. By the way, when your post includes chunks of code from the terminal, or if you edit it, please just use the mouse to select the text and then click on the fifth tab along, the code tab above the window so that the post occupies lest space and can be scrolled.

triplemaya · #17 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 22:27

Hi. Thanks for that kedaha. I'll try that next time. Still having major problems though.

Half way through the updates finally running ok, there was some kind of serious disk error. Starting again did not help. So, once more, with feeling. A reinstall. That all went smoothly enough, I thought. But when I went to boot for the first time, I got these errors:

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can't access job control tty turned off

mounting /sys on /root/sys no such file or directory

target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init

I turned the computer off and started again, but got the same error. So. Once again, another install. I imagine I must have missed a step in the install. But I don't at all understand what I did wrong. I thought I did everything the same as last time. When it finishes, and I get a huge list of things I can do, what do I *have* to do?

triplemaya · #18 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 23:01

Hi. Thanks everyone.

Code edited as requested.

I think what I did wrong last time was put in a domain name when it asked for it. I did not do that before, and I thought perhaps that was where I was going wrong. But I think that messed it up. A bit of instruction on that screen about why and when you would want to put in a domain name might be a good idea.

So. I did one more reinstall, and it all works ok, but only after I put in all the edits that kedaha told me to do. I did try setting the domain server to the uk server, but that made no difference at all. only when I edited the files as instructed do I get connected to the net for updates.

I guess all's well that ends well, but I am mightily puzzled about why the standard install requires that I edit these files when I have finished. Clearly this is not for the naive user! I don't think I would have got through this if I had not had a few years of training on ubuntu so I knew how to do commands and so on.

triplemaya · #19 Post by **triplemaya** » 2011-05-20 23:11

Well, I spoke too soon again. I am not getting all of the right connections. I have tried Main Server, US Server and UK Server, but all give errors.

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W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/updates/Release.gpg  Could not resolve 'ftp.gb.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uss.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-updates/Release.gpg  Could not resolve 'ftp.uss.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uss.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2  Could not resolve 'ftp.uss.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uss.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2  Could not resolve 'ftp.uss.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-updates/main/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

This was all working perfectly before, on one of the previous installs, so I have absolutely no idea what is going wrong.

Joel · #20 Post by **Joel** » 2011-05-21 00:48

I had the same problem, it was my dns, this is what I get adviced:

1.- edit your file /etc/resolv.conf, you should see something like:

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domain some.crap
search some.crap
nameserver nicenumbers

2.- comment everything:

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# domain some.crap
# search some.crap
# nameserver nicenumbers

3.- Go to free dns server and pick one, I use 8.8.8.8

4.- Use it on your /etc/resolv.conf, you may go sudo on this:

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# domain some.crap
# search some.crap
# nameserver nicenumbers
nameserver 8.8.8.8

5.- save on try again aptitude update

6.- If that worked, then...

7.- sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf, to avoid external programs edit the file.

8.- hope it helps like it helped me.

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