Comment 1 for bug 1400096

I confirm that don’t work the “Base (trusty)” selection in mintsources (software sources) ver. 1.3.7 for choosing alternate server, in Linux Mint 17.1. Maybe mintsources ver. 1.3.7 has a bug.

Beside this think, for the updates from Base (Trusty), download speed from the only one server accessible from the "list" (the list is blocked in mintsources ver. 1.3.7), archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu (from UK) is very very slow (300-400 KB/s), comparated to the server from my country (Romania), http://ubuntu.mirrors.linux.ro/archive, which may be selected in mintsources ver. 1.3.4 and may be downloaded the updates at a speed of 2000-3000 KB/s (no kbps).

Here’s the error in choosing another server (alternate server) for “Base (trusty)” in mintsources ver. 1.3.7 (Software sources):

“~ $ mintsources

(gksu:8183): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name

(gksu:8183): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no directories

Error ‘RETR response: 550′ on url ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu
Error ‘RETR response: 550′ on url ftp://ftp.rezopole.net/ubuntu
Error ‘Could not resolve host: ubuntu-archive.mirrors.free.org’ on url http://ubuntu-archive.mirrors.free.org/ubuntu
Error ‘RETR response: 550′ on url ftp://ftp.cesca.cat/ubuntu/archieve
Error ‘RETR response: 550′ on url ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/mirror/ubuntu
Error ‘Could not resolve host: mirror.peer1.net’ on url http://mirror.peer1.net/ubuntu
Error ‘RETR response: 550′ on url ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/linux/ubuntu
Error ‘Couldn’t resolve host ‘dl2.foss-id.web.id” on url http://dl2.foss-id.web.id/ubuntu
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py:1105: GtkWarning: Theme file for default has no directories

self._main_window.show_all()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py”, line 1087, in select_new_base_mirror
url = self.mirror_selection_dialog.run(self.base_mirrors)
File “/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py”, line 508, in run
self._update_list()
File “/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py”, line 434, in _update_list
self._all_speed_tests()
File “/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py”, line 440, in _all_speed_tests
thread_id = thread.start_new_thread(self._speed_test, (self._mirrors_model, iter))
thread.error: can’t start new thread”

I use Linux Mint 17.1 (Rebecca) - Cinnamon (after upgrade from Linux Mint 17.0 (Qiana) - Cinnamon).

The same problem is also a clean install of Linux Mint 17.1 (Rebecca) - Cinnamon.

Sorry for my bad English.