[Bug 646834] Re: APT gives unclear error message: "something wicked happened" when hostname of archive cannot be found

[Mathew Hodson]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1693900 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1693900

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 451366
   404 from the archive is not handled well
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1693900
   apt-get update should return exit code != 0 on error

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Title:
  APT gives unclear error message: "something wicked happened" when
  hostname of archive cannot be found

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Triaged
Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When something wicked happens when trying to download packages, this
  is the error message one gets:

  "something wicked happened resolving 'dk.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5
  - No address associated with hostname)"

  This error message does not say anything about whether the error is
  local (ie. something the user has any chance to do anything about) or
  related to other things (is the host server down? Or is the DNS-server
  failing to do its deed?)

  Generally, the text isn't very newbie friendly

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