[maemo-developers] Maemo development Appliance

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:42:19PM -0500, Amy Sockanathan wrote:
>   I am getting the following error during an apt-get update in the
> maemo appliance scratchbox "
> Err http://repository.maemo.org bora/free Packages
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> "
> I have made changes to the resolv.conf file to match what is in the
> resolv.conf outside the scratchbox but it doesn't seem to work. Any
> suggestions to resolve this issue.

Check /scratchbox/etc/resolv.conf (rather than
/scratchbox/users/$USER/etc/resolv.conf).

Check /scratchbox/etc/nsswitch.conf as well.  If the hosts line mentions
mdns, change it to just "hosts: files dns".

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
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                   Literacy for the 1990's.
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