Help needed urgently please: Couldn't solve "400 Bad Request" during sytem update

[NoOp]

On 12/22/2009 09:14 PM, arshad wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:37 -0800, NoOp wrote:
...
>> > i think the proxy is the problem. this just happens today:
>> > 
>> > $ wget
>> > http://cuplis.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/libpoppler2_06-0ubuntu23_i386.deb
>> > --2009-12-23 00:58:26--
>> > http://cuplis.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/libpoppler2_06-0ubuntu23_i386.deb
>> > Connecting to 79.174.64.146:8000... connected.
>> > Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request
>> > 2009-12-23 00:58:27 ERROR 400: Bad Request.
>> 
>> Looks that way. Did you check System|Preferences|Network Proxy to ensure
>> that it's turned off there? Do you still have privoxy installed?
>> $ locate privoxy
>> 
>> /etc/privoxy/config
>> uses port 8000 by default.

> i have this:
> forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
> 
> is that ok?

Not unless you intend to use a proxy. Here is what I'd posted in a
previous msg:

> Also, can you check System|Preferences|Network Proxy and ensure that
> 'Direct internet connection' is checked on the 'Proxy Configuration'
> tab, and that the 'Ignored Hosts' tab is only showing:
> localhost
> 127.0.0/8
> *.local
> 

There should be no other entries other than those three:
 localhost
 127.0.0/8
 *.local

And what was the result of the locate command that I'd asked you to do?:

$ locate privoxy