At work we’ve got a load of Mepis installs, and attempting to apt-get update for the last couple of days has failed from the non-us.debian.org respositories with the error “Unable to fetch file, server said ‘unable to open file. ‘”.

Now I’m quite new to Debian-based distros (I learned on and still use Slackware for the most part) but this is obviously some kind of server issue (I’ve updated before without problems). Thankfully there’s a list of mirrors available at the Debian website and ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-us works fine. Maybe I’ll do a bit of digging when I’ve got the time.

Update

Solved: sounds this is due to non-us being obsoleted with the release two days ago of Debian 3.1. I assume the mirrors have yet to catch up.