package manager broken

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Paul Tremblay <ptrembl at amazon.com> wrote:
>
> If this helps, my /etc/hosts file looks like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 ptrembl-dev.ant.amazon.com ptrembl-dev localhost
> ...

I don't think that "/etc/hosts" has a bearing on this problem but it's
best not to have it set u this way.

The Ubuntu default is

For DHCP
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ptrembl-dev.ant.amazon.com ptrembl-dev

For static
127.0.0.1 localhost
a.b.c.d    ptrembl-dev.ant.amazon.com ptrembl-dev

because there are supposed to be problems with certain
applications/situations when localhost is an alias of the hostname or
the hostname is an alias of localhost.