Thanks for that Jacqui, here is an update (ignore the pun).
I have just tried "apt-get update" and shortly afterwards I get this message
Archive directory '/var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing'. It
then exits apt-get.
With aptitude I get the same message but it waits longer before
exiting. Yesterday after about a minute aptitude worked!!
resolv.conf contains
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
Which it has got from my router, Google name server.
A bit more info:
I remembered yesterday I ran the script 'sh /etc/rc.local' so did it
just now. The update has worked with aptitude though with some errors
due to PGP problems.
"Fetched 119kB in 2s (57.2kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error:
http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA
W: GPG error:
http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems"
I have no idea why the script has to be run now, it was not necessary
out of the box.
On 11 February 2011 16:38, Jacqui Caren-home <jacqui.caren@???> wrote:
> On 10/02/2011 23:03, Clive Woodfine wrote:
>>
>> "aptitude update" which also did not work at first but after about a
>> minute
>
> resolv.conf or routing issues?
>
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