About the [Waiting for headers]

[junhaoliu]

Hi everyone,

I am new to raspberry pi, Just bought a raspberry pi 3 couple days ago, I am facing with a problem, can someone help me?
Problem:
When I type sudo apt-get update or something else,
It will always be: [waiting for headers], how to solve it?

Yours Sincerely!

[DougieLawson]

Get your network connected.

Start by looking at what's wrong
ip addr show
ip route
ping -c3 $(ip route | awk '/default/ {print $3}')
ping -c3 8.8.8.8
ping -c3 google.com
cat /etc/resolv.conf
ping -c3 mirrordirector.raspbian.org

[levinor]

Get your network connected.

Start by looking at what's wrong
ip addr show
ip route
ping -c3 $(ip route | awk '/default/ {print $3}')
ping -c3 8.8.8.8
ping -c3 google.com
cat /etc/resolv.conf
ping -c3 mirrordirector.raspbian.org

Hi,

I've the same problem with a raspberrypi 2. All the commands returned ok, even the ping to mirrordirector.raspbian.org. But when I try to update or install it gets stuck on waiting for headers.

I saw something strange, when trying to update it shows

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0% [Waiting for headers][Conecting to archive.raspberrypi.org]

But my /etc/apt/sources-list dont include archive.raspberrypi.org, it looks like this.

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deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi
deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi

EDIT: Nevermind, I was tired and didn't realized my original /etc/apt/sources-list was:

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deb http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi
deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi

Changing it to mirrordirector, and rebooting the raspberry, would work (yesterday night I couldn't try the install, just the update, but I think it would work too) just fine:

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deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi
deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi

[DougieLawson]

Good thread hijack. Start a new one. Or search for your problem (waiting for headers is a common FAQ).
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=raspb ... or+headers