[Debian-uk] ftp.uk.debian.org ill?

[Harry Rickards]

On 10 May 2009, at 20:22, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
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>> On 05/10/09 12:09, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>>> Is it my imagination, or is ftp.uk.debian.org missing a *lot* of
>>> binary packages at the moment?  I just tried updating my testing
>>> machine, and hit about 60 403's; a look at the directory listings  
>>> via
>>> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool shows that there are loads of
>>> missing files, such as libg/libgems-ruby/rubygems_1.3.2-1_all.deb.
>>>
>>>   Julian
>>>
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>>
>> I don't know if it's my problem or if it's the repo's problem, but
>> similar to this I haven't been able to download *any* packages from  
>> the
>> repository, since this morning. There were about 20 updates  
>> available, 1
>> 403'd and the rest said they were downloading at my usual speed, but
>> stayed at 0%. Changing to the ftp.debian.org repo fixed this. By the
>> looks of it, the Kent mirror of ftp.uk.debian.org seems to be  
>> alright.
>> The url is http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/.
>> As the debian-uk list seems to be very quiet, I've also CC'ed this to
>> the debian-user list/
>
> The RAID controller had a bit of a brain hemorrhage today, and decided
> that it would throw a load of bad blocks, which put several of the
> file-systems into read-only.  If you were trying to access things at
> that point, you'll have had trouble.
>
> I was under the impression that the subsequent reboot had sorted  
> things
> out. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
>
> Cheers, Phil.

Yeah, it seems to be working fine for me now.

Thanks
Harry Rickards