Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Keith Powell <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 03 Feb 2005 21:39, Sunny wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:32:16 +0000, Keith Powell
>
> <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is anyone else experiencing problems downloading from the apt-get
> > repositories?
> >
> > Both gwdg.de and mathematik.uni seem to have been faulty most of today.
> > Broadband download speeds from either repository have only been a few
> > thousand Kb/s dropping down to a few hundred. (Worse that when I was on
> > dial-up!). They have downloaded for a few seconds and then there have
> > been periods of about 30 seconds with no activity. It's taken a long time
> > to download anything - even of just a few Mb!
> >
> > Now I can't download anything. Whenever I try, I get an "unknown
> > signature" error message and *nothing* will download. Even trying to
> > install the various rpm signatures gives me the "unknown signature"
> > message and they won't download. I have deselected the "check signature"
> > in synaptic, but it makes no difference.
> >
> > Is anyone else experiencing this, or must it be a large problem here?
> > It's the first time this has happened.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Keith
> >
> apt-get update work ok (and fast) for me. Can not check the actual
> update, as there is nothing new since yesterday
>
> Sunny

Thanks for your reply.

I ought to have added that apt-get update hasn't been too bad for speed, it's 
the downloading of the packages which has been the problem.

Keith