Resolved: Unable to access Debian repository.

dirkmitt · Post by **dirkmitt** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:45 pm

Yesterday evening, I became unable to access http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/ . This has firstly become inaccessible to me for the purpose of finding out from the Web pages, whether version 0.9.59 has been adapted as binaries for Debian yet, which I personally need as a user of Kanotix, because the whole index can't be called up.

But in addition right now, an 'apt-get update' fails to complete, because this program is also unable to access your server. Further, the problem did not clear itself overnight.

Yet, 'apt-get update' does report what the correct IP number of your server is, with a data rate of 0 kBits/Sec, for which reason our DNS server here in Québec is not in doubt.

Could you please confirm, whether last night or this morning, you were in fact having server problems?

Dirk

P.S. My ISP is named "Sympatico," and is a virtual DSL monopoly in Québec. If it turns out that the readers can click on the link above and open the correct Web page, it would next follow that Québec is boycotting all connections to the WINE project. Because they don't seem to be boycotting me per se; all the other Web sites I normally visit seem to be accessible to me as usual.

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:18 pm

On 07/04/2008, dirkmitt <[email protected]> wrote:

Yesterday evening, I became unable to access http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/ . This has firstly become inaccessible to me for the purpose of finding out from the Web pages, whether version 0.9.59 has been adapted as binaries for Debian yet, which I personally need as a user of Kanotix, because the whole index can't be called up.

It's responding pretty slowly this weekend. But I just went to it, the
front page loaded right up and it's still at 0.9.58. Yes, I'm hanging
out for .59 too

- d.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:38 pm

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

Yesterday evening, I became unable to access http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/ . This has firstly become inaccessible to me...
It's responding pretty slowly this weekend. But I just went to it, the
front page loaded right up and it's still at 0.9.58.

It's been down for me all morning... lessee...

$ host wine.budgetdedicated.com
wine.budgetdedicated.com has address 88.159.206.7
wine.budgetdedicated.com has address 81.171.111.184
wine.budgetdedicated.com has IPv6 address 2001:4de0:aaac:0

:2

Only the 2nd address responds to a ping for me, and it
doesn't accept http connections.

Who maintains that site?

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:56 pm

On 07/04/2008, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:

It's been down for me all morning... lessee...
$ host wine.budgetdedicated.com
Who maintains that site?

Scott Ritchie does the debs, I think. But budgetdedicated.com itself
appears to be inaccessible.

- d.

dirkmitt · Post by **dirkmitt** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:33 pm

I don't like to leave information written, which turns into false info, because the actual state of the system has changed.

Even though I don't actually get to my computers every day, I did check it again tonight (April 9,) and found that I was able to access the server again.

Yet, the fact remains that a Debian-Etch runtime package for v0.9.58 has not been put on the server yet.

And No, I won't be posting this fact when that happens... {:-)}

Dirk

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:16 am

On 10/04/2008, dirkmitt <[email protected]> wrote:

Yet, the fact remains that a Debian-Etch runtime package for v0.9.58 has not been put on the server yet.

http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive ... 1_i386.deb
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive ... _amd64.deb

- d.

dirkmitt · Post by **dirkmitt** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:01 pm

Of course I meant, that version 0.9.59 had not been put on the server yet. Oops.

Then again, it hasn't been put as the Etch version either, as I'm writing this... I'm just itching to see, how many GUI problems were solved!

Dirk

BTW, just so that this post doesn't bore too many people, I wanted to comment on just having noticed recently, that Debian Etch has gone an unusual path with how the maintainers implement widgets. Since under Etch, they wanted to unburden users *and* developers from the need to install "wx," "Xt," and "OSF/Motif" separately, they created subsets of each library.

Normally, an application would use one of the three libraries, but we don't always know which one.

But the subsets of these libraries are supposed to handle 'most widget calls and 3D GUI calls.' The idea that the fusion is supposed to take up less memory, also appears to be what's 'less' about 'lesstif' (instead of Motif.)

But I'm imagining, that especially with Bryce for example, it could really be a problem.

But now somebody tell me. Is this really one of the problems causing the delay?