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[wildchildc200]

i just reloaded my xandros business pro v4.1 and now when i try to use xn i get several error messages saying that
"xandros network server (xn1.xandros.com:80) cannot be contacted. a connection to the internet may not be avalible please check your connection and try again.

could not download file:
http://xn1.xandros.com/snv4/pkgdata/xne-pkgdata-DSKB400NAEN.xml from the web server

i am somewhat limited in my understanding of linux so please keep that in mind when answering

internet is working fine as i am using same computer now to do this
acer aspire 5100 amd turion 64×2 ati graphics 1 gb ram

thank you for any help

[jimallyn]

My guess is it just means their server is currently offline. Try it again later. (I don’t know about recently, but it used to be you could pretty much count on the server being down for at least a portion of every weekend.)
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[wildchildc200]

this has been an ongoing problem for a week or so now

[jimallyn]

Hmmm, not sure what to tell you then. Hopefully somebody else will have an answer.
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[jimallyn]

I just did a little searching, and have an idea. Apparently, the xn1 server just serves up the news and store pages for Xandros Networks. It appears that server is down, but the actual repositories, where the apps are actually stored, is still up. Let’s try something:

Open an Administrator Console: click Launch, Applications, System, Administrator Tools, Console (Administrator) and enter the Admin/root password when it asks for it. At the command prompt, enter the following command (one at a time):

apt-get update

apt-get install gksu

apt-get install synaptic


This will install Synaptic, an alternative package manager that does basically the same thing as Xandros Networks. I think Synaptic will automatically show up in the menus at Launch, Applications, System, Synaptic Package Manager. If so, just click on it to start it. If it didn’t automatically show up there, hit Alt F2 and enter synaptic in the box and click Run. You’ll have to enter the Admin/root password and Synaptic should start up. Try installing some packages with Synaptic. My guess is that you will be able to use Synaptic OK. This will confirm that the XN repositories are still running and that you are able to access them OK.

Assuming all that works, you can either continue using Synaptic instead of XN, or you can contact [email protected] and let them know of the problem.

I just tried to use XN and had much the same problem you are having. I think Xandros has a server problem.
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[wildchildc200]

i did what you suggested and this is what i get when i tried to load synaptic

W: Couldn’t stat source package list file: xandros4.0/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_var_autofs_cdrom.1_cdrom.1_dists_xandros4.0_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list file: xandros4.0/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_var_autofs_cdrom.1_cdrom.1_dists_xandros4.0_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list file: xandros4.0/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_var_autofs_cdrom.1_cdrom.1_dists_xandros4.0_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list file: xandros4.0/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_var_autofs_cdrom.1_cdrom.1_dists_xandros4.0_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list file: xandros4.0/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_var_autofs_cdrom.1_cdrom.1_dists_xandros4.0_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list file: xandros4.0/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_var_autofs_cdrom.1_cdrom.1_dists_xandros4.0_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)

[jimallyn]

That just means you have the CD "repository" enabled but don’t have the CD in the drive. Did you try installing anything? What happened?
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[wildchildc200]

it does download programs and they do work

xn is still not working and would like to get it working again so if you come by a solution to that problem i would like to know

thank you for your help atleast i can get what i need now i think

[TekMate]

I tried this morning and got the same error waited a couple of minutes and it worked so I am not sure what is going on but you may want to try a few times in a row to see if you can catch it while it’s up.
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[jimallyn]

I emailed Xandros support:

[jimallyn]

 

[jimallyn]

wildchildc200, the other user who has reported this problem is still having problems. You, too? See the other thread on this problem:

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=38006

I have recommended to him that he contact Xandros support himself. If you want to do this too, email to [email protected] and mention support ticket #177020.
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[jimallyn]

I just got two emails from Xandros support:

[vitori]

On the second machine I ran into a weird error pango would not compile saying glib was not available even though glib had installed fine I went back and reinstalled glib and pango installed fine. I may have goofed somewhere but just incase anyone else runs into this I threw it in here.


Next we go to mozilla.com I grabbed the latest (at this time 3.5.2) and unzipped it into /opt
Then we cd into /opt/firefox .

We need to create a script to launch the file again I had to make a couple of changes to the one from the other web site so I created FF35 and put the following into it:
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actualtests OG0-093 |actualtests 70-685 |actualtests 1z0-051