SOLVED - Re: Error message in apt: Method ftp has died unexpectedly! - Tried to dequeue a fetching object

You are right ! Congratulations !

I do the same you suggested and worked for me too !
The error message is not accurate as a description for the real problem.
Could any of the developers take care of this, please ?

thanks,

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:20, Marcel Ritter wrote:

>
> I just got into the same trouble (tried to upgrade a DVD installed SuSE
> 9.2 box to the latest versions via ftp). Same error message.
>
> I temporarily fixed it by manually installing some of the packages
> (apt-get install <lots-of-packages>) and then trying to do "apt-get
> -u upgrade" from time to time. And at a certain point it worked.
>
> I guess there's some memory limit involved, perhaps someone familiar
> with the code could have a look?
>
>  > regards,
>
> Regards,
>   Marcel