Can't get up2date started

Jonathan Allen jonathan at barumtrading.co.uk
Tue Mar 15 17:48:45 UTC 2005


All,

I've completely run out of ideas on this, so please excuse an obvious
question.  I have read all the stuff about bug #102272 and the proxy
settings and have done this hoodles of times - I just can't remember
what else I'm missing ...

I'm replacing a customer's FC2 machine, which they want to stay on FC2,
so on new hardware I loaded the FC2 CDs - all OK.  Then I put the machine
onto my network to get it do a full up2date.

   m/c ip:    192.168.1.39
   web-proxy: 83.104.103.142

new machine can ping web-proxy; can telnet to web-proxy, can use the
squid server on web-proxy to see webpages.  The webproxy is a simple
squid non-authenticating proxy.

The sequence:

   # export http_proxy=http://83.104.103.142:3128
   # /usr/sbin/up2date -u -v

produces the usual TypeError: iterable argument required

I've been staring the bug listing in the face until I've gone blue but
I can't see what I have missed :-(

Can any kind soul throw me the missing piece ?

Jonathan




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