Update: Download starts again and again and ... after "Command exited with code 22"

[xpl.joe]

Binary package hint: apt-file

Ubuntu 9.04
apt-file version 2.2.0
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prompt$ apt-file update
Downloading complete file http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 15.0M 100 15.0M 0 0 61255 0 0:04:17 0:04:17 --:--:-- 75843
Downloading complete file http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 296k 100 296k 0 0 31908 0 0:00:09 0:00:09 --:--:-- 31529
Calculating old sha1sum...
Downloading Index http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.diff/Index:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Download of http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.diff/Index failed
Command exited with code 22

Downloading complete file http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 15.0M 100 15.0M 0 0 50686 0 0:05:10 0:05:10 --:--:-- 47020
Calculating old sha1sum...
Downloading Index http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/Contents-amd64.diff/Index:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Download of http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/Contents-amd64.diff/Index failed
Command exited with code 22

Downloading complete file http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 296k 100 296k 0 0 42527 0 0:00:07 0:00:07 --:--:-- 57426
Calculating old sha1sum...
Downloading Index http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.diff/Index:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Download of http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.diff/Index failed
Command exited with code 22

Downloading complete file http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
  1 15.0M 1 228k 0 0 35812 0 0:07:19 0:00:06 0:07:13 35871^CDownload of http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Contents-amd64.gz failed
Command died with signal 2
Calculating old sha1sum...
Downloading Index http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/Contents-amd64.diff/Index:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Download of http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/Contents-amd64.diff/Index failed
Command exited with code 22

Downloading complete file http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-updates/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 296k 100 296k 0 0 35903 0 0:00:08 0:00:08 --:--:-- 47137
Downloading complete file http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 116k 100 116k 0 0 37691 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 43229
Calculating old sha1sum...
Downloading Index http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/Contents-amd64.diff/Index:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Download of http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/Contents-amd64.diff/Index failed
Command exited with code 22

Downloading complete file http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-security/Contents-amd64.gz
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 116k 100 116k 0 0 47381 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 56453
^Cprompt$

[Eric Padman (mentalnotes)]

Confirmed with official repository and New Zealand mirror.