debian package authentication

[alexK]

I've been trying to install postfix onto my SheevaPlug but getting the following error consistently in spite of anything  and everything I've found by googling the problem:
plug:~# apt-get install postfix                                                 
Reading package lists... Done                                                   
Building dependency tree                                                       
Reading state information... Done                                               
The following extra packages will be installed:                                 
  ssl-cert                                                                     
Suggested packages:                                                             
  postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin resolvconf   
  postfix-cdb ufw openssl-blacklist                                             
The following packages will be REMOVED:                                         
  exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light                                   
The following NEW packages will be installed:                                   
  postfix ssl-cert                                                             
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.                 
Need to get 1,271kB of archives.                                               
After this operation, 684kB disk space will be freed.                           
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y                                               
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!                       
  ssl-cert postfix                                                             
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

I declined.

after the following commands: (suggested at http://changelog.complete.org/archives/496-how-to-solve-the-following-packages-cannot-be-authenticated)
apt-get install debian-archive-keyring
apt-get update
I got the following error:
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/squeeze/main/i18n/Transla
tion-en_US.lzma  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.egr.msu.edu'                 
                                                                               
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used
 instead.                                               


Can someone suggest what needs to be done?
thanks in advance
alex

[LrdShaper]

What exactly have you tried?

How about delete the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists/partial then apt-get clean && apt-get update

[alexK]

Thanks for the reply:
 I did as you suggested but still no success.
Here's the output:

plug:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial# mv * ~/partial/  #just in case I needed them back:-)
plug:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial# ls
plug:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial# apt-get clean && apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
Err http://ftp.egr.msu.edu squeeze Release.gpg
  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.egr.msu.edu'
Err http://ftp.egr.msu.edu squeeze/main Translation-en_US
  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.egr.msu.edu'
Reading package lists... Done     
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/squeeze/Release.gpg  Temp
orary failure resolving 'ftp.egr.msu.edu'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/squeeze/main/i18n/Transla
tion-en_US.lzma  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.egr.msu.edu'

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used
 instead.
plug:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial# ls
plug:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial#  ping ftp.egr.msu.edu
PING ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=98.8 ms
64 bytes from ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=100 ms
64 bytes from ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=98.8 ms
^C
--- ike.egr.msu.edu ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 98.855/99.245/100.005/0.537 ms
plug:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ squeeze main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
plug:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial#


My /etc/apt/sources.list has not been changed since installation and looks as shown above.

Something else that may be relevant is the following:
plug:/var/log# ping http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
ping: unknown host http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
plug:/var/log#

I've not noticed any other difficulty resolving URLs.

thanks again


 

[alexK]

I've done a little more trouble shooting:

On another debian box I have, I successfully did

Code:

gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key  9AA38DCD55BE302B
gpg -a --export 9AA38DCD55BE302B | sudo apt-key add -

and after that I was able to apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
but on the SheevaPlug:

Code:

plug:~# gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key  9AA38DCD55BE302B
gpg: requesting key 55BE302B from hkp server pgpkeys.mit.edu
?: pgpkeys.mit.edu: Host not found
gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: Success
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
plug:~#

things don't work so well even though

Code:

plug:~# ping pgpkeys.mit.edu
PING CRYPTONOMICON.mit.edu (18.9.60.141) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from CRYPTONOMICON.MIT.EDU (18.9.60.141): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=95.8 m
s
64 bytes from CRYPTONOMICON.MIT.EDU (18.9.60.141): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=97.2 m
s
64 bytes from CRYPTONOMICON.MIT.EDU (18.9.60.141): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=96.9 m
s
64 bytes from CRYPTONOMICON.MIT.EDU (18.9.60.141): icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=95.8 m
s
64 bytes from CRYPTONOMICON.MIT.EDU (18.9.60.141): icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=96.2 m
s
64 bytes from CRYPTONOMICON.MIT.EDU (18.9.60.141): icmp_seq=6 ttl=50 time=96.3 m
s
^C

would suggest that resolve seems to be working fine.

any ideas?