Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:

Asked by Andy Bovett

As of 18th April 2012 I can't update from medibuntu. The problem is occurring with several PCs, runing both ubuntu oneiric and the pre-release ubuntu precise.

No changes have been made to the apt sources, gpg keys or any other related configuration.

Trying to do an update (sudo aptititude update or sudo apt-get update) gives a number of errors as below:

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Err http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/non-free i386 Packages
  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/free Translation-en_GB
  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/free Translation-en
  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/non-free Translation-en_GB
  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/non-free Translation-en
  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:
Fetched 18.7 MB in 1min 4s (291 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/non-free/binary-i386/Packages Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/free/i18n/Translation-en_GB Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/free/i18n/Translation-en Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_GB Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/non-free/i18n/Translation-en Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org:http:

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

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However, package lists can be fetched successfully with wget:

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$ wget http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
--2012-04-19 17:08:35-- http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/precise/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
Resolving packages.medibuntu.org (packages.medibuntu.org)... 88.191.127.22
Connecting to packages.medibuntu.org (packages.medibuntu.org)|88.191.127.22|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 24551 (24K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `Packages'

100%[=============================================================================================>] 24,551 --.-K/s in 0.1s

2012-04-19 17:08:36 (228 KB/s) - `Packages' saved [24551/24551]

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My sources.list contains (precise shown, oneiric is similar):

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deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free
deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free

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This has not been changed and was working correctly before.

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KDontenville (kevin-keepnet) said :
#1

The packages.medibuntu.org service does seem to drop off the world at times and right now I too have the same issue as you.

Perhaps it may be related to the imminent 12.04 release?

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Andy Bovett (abovett) said :
#2

UPDATE: Looks like this is Bug #985441: Medibuntu offline.

I'll close the question and follow it on the bug report.