[maemo-developers] Unable to update targets on Maemo 3.1 'bora' via 'apt-get update' after sdk installation

[From: Ian]

Hi,
Thx to kulve in #maemo I have just found the solution:

if you receive an error about unavailable repositories you need to:
vern at N800-hacker:~$ cd /scratchbox/etc/
vern at N800-hacker:/scratchbox/etc$ sudo gedit nsswitch.conf
Password:
and edit the file so it looks like this:
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

passwd:         compat
group:          compat
shadow:         compat

#hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
hosts:          files dns
networks:       files

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files

netgroup:       nis

then from inside scratchbox do:
[sbox-SDK_ARMEL: ~] apt-get update
and it will hit the repositories ok.

[]'s
Ian
> Hi,
>
>
> I tried to install Maemo bora SDK to my host system (Debian testing ~ lenny).
>
>
> The scratchbox installation went ok, but the maemo sdk installation script
> failed to update both targets at the end of the installation. And when trying manually to run
> 'apt-get update' on either of the targets I got the
> same complaints about not being able to resolve repositories:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> Err http://repository.maemo.org bora/free Release
> Could not resolve 'repository.maemo.org'
> Failed to fetch
> http://repository.maemo.org/dists/bora/free/binary-armel/Packages.gz
> Could not resolve 'repository.maemo.org'
> ...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I have "googled" to find a solution to this problem, and I found couple
> other posts from people having same kind of problems. My symptoms are exactly same:
>
> - I'm able do download stuff using directly the wget to do the job, for
> example command '[sbox-SDK_ARMEL: ~] > wget
> http://repository.maemo.org/dists/bora/free/binary-armel/Packages.gz'
> worked perfectly ok.
>
> - I have also checked the /etc/nsswitch.conf on both targets to contain
> the line 'hosts:      files dns'
>
>
> - I have added to the /etc/resolv.conf (again in both targets) the
> following definitions (copied from my host system)
>
> nameserver 172.16.0.1 (my local network name server) nameserver 193.229.0.40 (my isp name server)
>
> But neither of above changes did make the apt-get to work.
>
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong here?
>
>
> Many thanks!
>
>
> br. Jan-Petter
>
>
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