alternative backports mirror?

[tyrus]

Hi. I just moved from Libranet/straight Debian, and thought I'd give Ubuntu a try. Backports seems the place I gotta be to get the software I need, but after adding the servers to my repos list I get 404 and 111 errors everytime I try an apt-get update. I presume this is because of server overload (or perhaps they're down??) - in either case, is there a list of alternative mirrors somewhere???

Thanks!

Ty

[tntc1978]

I get these errors when I try updating, seems related, but I have no clue as to why I get them!

http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/dists/breezy-extras/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found
http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/dists/breezy-extras/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found
http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/dists/breezy-extras/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found
http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/dists/breezy-extras/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found

[vaskark]

Me too :(

[ajgreeny]

And me. It started yesterday 25th Jan, before that all was well. Have the servers gone down or are these backports no longer in existence?

[hod139]

Down for me too. Anyone know what's going on?

[manicka]

Try these

#backports
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

[hod139]

I should be more clear. The backports still work:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main universe multiverse restricted
but the breezy-extras
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ breezy-extras main universe multiverse restricted
do not work. Are the breezy-extras gone or is the mirror just down for a while?

[ice60]

Try these

#backports
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
hi, i just realised that it was those which have been giving me alot of errors they work without the de. though like this http://archive... why do some people get errors and not others when they use de. :confused:

my apt-get says it can't connect to the backports extras too :( i searched for backports extras and all the ones i found have the mirrormax.net address

[davebgimp]

It's looking like as of this time, all the repositories on mirrormax that are listed my sources list are down.

http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/dists/breezy-extras/Release.gpg: Temporary failure resolving 'ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net'

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net breezy-extras/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net_dists_breezy-extras_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net breezy-extras/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net_dists_breezy-extras_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net breezy-extras/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net_dists_breezy-extras_universe_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net breezy-extras/multiverse Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net_dists_breezy-extras_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

[davebgimp]

Here we go...no more Mirrormax:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=121734

[tyrus]

The solution proposed in the above thread doesn't solve the issue of a missing mirror for extras. So, we still don't have a mirror for the extras archives.

wtf?

[pulp]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=548673&postcount=3