Apt-get update wont run and gives 503 service unavailable error


 
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# 15  
Old 10-11-2013
I dont see any output when doing
Code:
apt-get clean


Last edited by Scott; 10-11-2013 at 06:25 PM.. Reason: Quote tags -> code tags
# 16  
Old 10-11-2013
Code:
sudo apt-get clean
# just for fun
sudo apt-get -s clean

Did you change your sources.list by chance?
Because by now the mirrors should be in sync again...
Are you by chance behind a proxy?
# 17  
Old 10-11-2013
Code:
apt-get -s clean
Del /var/cache/apt/archives/* /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*
Del /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin


Last edited by Scott; 10-11-2013 at 06:27 PM.. Reason: Quote tags -> code tags | last time
# 18  
Old 10-11-2013
Please read the edits.

What about the first line?
# 19  
Old 10-11-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by sea
Code:
sudo apt-get clean
# just for fun
sudo apt-get -s clean

Did you change your sources.list by chance?
Because by now the mirrors should be in sync again...
Are you by chance behind a proxy?
No i did not change the sources.list file

Btw i am not behind the proxy
# 20  
Old 10-11-2013
Ok, then sorry.
Me too tired atm to stay on. Catch you later.
# 21  
Old 10-14-2013
I am not sure why am i getting 503 errors when running apt-get and aptitude?

Btw i can do nslookup for the IP adrress provided from my machine.



Code:
aptitude install imagemagick
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  imagemagick 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 109 not upgraded.
Need to get 49.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 213 kB will be used.
Err Index of /ubuntu precise-updates/main imagemagick amd64 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2
  503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Err Index of /ubuntu precise-security/main imagemagick amd64 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2
  503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.91.14 80]
0% [Working]E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/po...3.2_amd64.deb: 503  Service Unavailable [IP: 91.189.91.14 80]


Last edited by Scott; 10-14-2013 at 06:41 PM.. Reason: Quote tags -> Code tags. Again. Thread closed.
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