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Archive for April 11th, 2008

iPod Touch – Cydia Packager – Updates with too many errors

Posted by Michael on April 11, 2008

After nothing really worked as already stated in previous posts, today early in the morning, Cydia reproted one error and afterwards 42 available updates. How long will it take to have all updates installed ? 10-15 min for the first / second … then a POSIX error, and another, and another … !

I don’t know why there is no better check implemented if a package is available or not. Instead it starts downloading and what ? Waiting for a timeout ?

It finished updating NetDB und stops with package error: “NetDB: No address associated with hostname”. And this error stays, had to cklick about 30 times till it was gone. Now I have 39 waiting updates ? I tried an “update all”, forget it ! Do it one by one, thus being able to identify those updates which cause trouble.

Status: After 2 hrs work I got 15 updates installed, still get lots of errors. Every now and then I have to switch off and on again. Another hour later all left updates either are broken or can’t be downloaded or what ever, NetDB throwing one error after error …

Edit: Second day, 10 hrs of updates: Still 11 left … after  a failed update I have to toggle Wifi off an on
otherwise it doesn’t find any server.
15 hrs: 5 more done, 6 left … I give up for now

Edit: 2 days later finally all updated.

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