Problem with downloading in Synaptics

[SneakyBooBoo]

Is anyone else having problems over the last couple days downloading packages with synaptic? After i select my packages, i click apply and it says downloading at unknown rate, like it cant connect or something? Or it works after like a long long wait but slow.

Is there a problem with the servers or did i tinker with something bad?

[Ferio]

Same thing is happening to me, I can't upgrade although I've been trying it for ages.

[SneakyBooBoo]

probably maintenance on the server or its congested from everyone trying to download and upgrade. dunno. i'll wait a couple days and see what happens.

[daranz]

The repository servers seem to be overloaded due to Hardy just coming out. You might wish to use a mirror (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors)

[SneakyBooBoo]

i thought as much. i guess i'll just put up with it for the next couple days or so.

[amyst]

I can't use synaptic to get packages on Hardy. I can use sudo apt-get install though. Do the two methods download from the same repos?

[SneakyBooBoo]

yeah i think they do.

[amyst]

That would mean there's something wrong with synaptic package manager. The first time I run synaptic after a clean install of Hardy, the packages were downloaded successfully and fast. The second time I run it, synaptic hung. Closing it and restarting over the last day but it still hung. On Gutsy the same method worked.

Never mind that. I attempted on Gutsy and similar problem occurs.

[SneakyBooBoo]

it does hang from time to time on my machine but it always comes around in a couple seconds or so. its possible its hanging when its updating the repos and your dependencies.

[amyst]

The last time I attempted synaptic it hang for > 5 min. I think I'll leave it on for tonight and see if it does anything.

Thanks for the tip, so synaptic probably isn't broken.