Comment 7 for bug 283155

The game is back on. Saw the "usual" crash message when I ran update manager this morning. Furthermore, when I get to the point where I can try and install updates, I get the error:

W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/foomatic-filters/foomatic-filters_4.0.0~bzr177-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
  Could not resolve ‘http’

Networking and proxy settings seem good for everything else. No changes apart from a reboot since yesterday's problem:

echo $http_proxy
http://web-proxy.britain.agilent.com:8088/

(not sure of the etiquette regarding status at this stage. Changing back to New, possibly should go to in progrss or maybe I should just leave this as is... )