[SailfishDevel] PkCon on Emulator: Empty Reply from Server

[christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch]

Hi All

Ever so often, when I try to install a package to the Emulator via  
PkCon I get the following error:


Schwerwiegender Fehler: Fehler beim Herunterladen (curl) für  
'http://releases.sailfishos.org/sdk/latest/jolla/i486/mw/i486/geoclue-0.12.99.3-1.4.1.i486.rpm':
Fehlerkode: Unrecognized error
Fehlernachricht: Empty reply from server

(For the non-german speakers that translates to something like  
"Critical Error: Error downloading .... for ....").

Having googled I found a workaround in the logs of an irc conversation  
between Jonni and Artem

http://merproject.org/logs/%23sailfishos/%23sailfishos.2013-11-23.log

Namely:

artemma: if you get cant resolve host, then you might want to run as  
root in emu: echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf

After running that the server is resolved and packages are installed.

But what is going on here? Why do I repeatedly need to repeat this "fix"?

Chris