Updating repositories

[AndrewS]

](*,)

Good evening

I recently started using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and I'm basically impressed. I had a few problems with mounting W*****s drives (fixed by editing /etc/pmount.allow) and getting Firefox to access the internet (fixed by editiong /etc/modpeobe.d/blacklist). Oh, and I couldn't figure how to get Evolution to access my Gmail account, but Thunderbird works fine.

The reason for this post is I can't get the repositories to update. I get the following error:

Could not download all repository indexes

The repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and the correct writing of the repository address in the preferences.

and

http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/Release.gpg
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/Release.gpg

(sometimes more here, depends how long I wait).

The internet connection works fine. Am I doing something fundamentally wrong?

TIA AndrewS

[AndrewS]

Shameless bump!

I really like Ubuntu Linux (it's the first one I can see actually displacing W*****s as the default OS on my PC), but I would like to be able to use the repositories through Synaptic. Oh, and sound on my old Thinkpad 770E would be nice, but that's for a separate thread!](*,)

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

Andrew

[Bartender]

Andrew -
I'm having problems with the u.s. servers. Same problem at 2 different houses on 2 different PC's. Weird thing is nobody else is squawking about it! If your updates were working and aren't now just hang in there. If your Linux install is brand new there's no reason to think that the repo lists are bad.
EDIT: If you do a Search for 'updating repositories' there's lots of info but I wouldn't start tweaking your sources.list unless you feel pretty sure something's not right.
ANOTHER EDIT: aysiu (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources) made a cut-and-paste repository menu if you're up to some command line work...

[Roobert]

Andrew - I haven't been able to update with Synaptic on Ubuntu Dapper at all today. Well, I did manage to connect for about 5 minutes, long enough to install a few more packages, but that was about 5 hours ago.

And I'm using a fresh Dapper install, with Official Ubuntu sources.list!

[AndrewS]

Bartender
Thanks for your reply. I've never been able to get updates to work (either with 6.06 or 6.10), on either of two PCs, with fresh installs. I'll try the solution suggested by Aysiu.
Andrew

[Bartender]

Andrew -
This whole repository subject is something I know little about. Did you take a good look at the 2 stickies from ubuntudemon in the top of the "Repositories and Backports" section? You could paste in his entire sources.list if you wanted.
Make sure to save yours! If you've made no changes to your sources.list I don't know why it wouldn't work. Are you absolutely sure your internet connection is working? Yesterday I saw some posts where guys typed in a really simple command that asked the PC to just ping all the repos in their lists.

[Bartender]

Andrew -
Have you read this (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu) from Ubuntu docs?

[AndrewS]

Hi

OK, I followed the instructions in Aysiu's post exactly, even the last bit about (I think) wiping sources.list and starting again. No joy. Below: I have posted the contents of the terminal window. I assume my internet connection is basically OK since I can view web sites, send and receive e-mail etc. A couple of things that I'm not sure about - what does the ":80" refer to - a port? Is it the right one? And what is "1.0.0.0" - an IP address?

Thanks again in advance.

Andrew

andrew@ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Reading package lists... Done
andrew@ubuntu:~$ sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list_backup /etc/apt/sources.list
andrew@ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Err http://archive.canonical.com edgy-commercial Release.gpg
Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release.gpg
Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.canonical.com edgy-commercial/main Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release.gpg
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports Release.gpg
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Reading package lists... Done


Andrew -
Have you read this (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu) from Ubuntu docs?

[hyper7]

have you tried running the update manager manually?

sudo update-manager

I've been getting this error for some time now and I don't get why.

warning: could not initiate dbus

[AndrewS]

Hello again

I had another browse around the forum, and found a post suggesting that I change the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf from 192.168.1.1 (the IP of the D-Link router) to 203.8.183.1. Not sure why, but I certainly downloaded a lot of stuff!

Thanks for all the replies. Next problem to tackle is lack of sound on the Thinkpad 770E...

Andrew

[Zendarin]

have you tried running the update manager manually?

sudo update-manager

I've been getting this error for some time now and I don't get why.

warning: could not initiate dbus


Hey, I've been getting the same error, but only since I upgraded to "Edgy".

I couldn't install 7 packages, and I've had alot of dependency issues that I'm still sorting out. I think it will be an ongoing process :(

[IusedTObeSOMEONEelse]

~$ sudo update-manager
Password:
warning: could not initiate dbus
could not send the dbus Inhibit signal: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
current dist not found in meta-release file

[IusedTObeSOMEONEelse]

I'm Bumping this as I would like an answer, if not a solution!! Any one? Some one?

[tmunro55]

I've recently installed Dapper on one of my machines, and I'm getting MD5 checksum errors on security and archive repositories. I have a post in the thread "MD5 Checksum errors" as well.

I can't seem update the kernel, firefox, openoffice. Two weeks earlier I installed from the same CD on my laptop with no updating issues at all.

:???:

[Zendarin]

~$ sudo update-manager
Password:
warning: could not initiate dbus
could not send the dbus Inhibit signal: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
current dist not found in meta-release file

Ditto.

[Ramaddan]

I also keep having this message from time to time:

warning: could not initiate dbus

What does it mean? Is something broken?