Why can't I update ?

[NarsilAnduril]

dont use the dist-upgrade!!
you have 10.04 TLS this command will lead to upgrade the version to 10.10.
so it's only a very very last resort.

Don't confuse "atp-get dist-upgrade" and "do-release-upgrade".

This looks like a known side effect of a recent update. Your file /etc/motd.tail has acquired some bogus text. (The update copied /etc/motd to /etc/motd.tail, so now you see the real system status, followed by old system status including a message that you have pending updates.)

Just delete /etc/motd.tail, or replace it with more useful text. Man, this is turning into an annoying issue. Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn't report a problem tracing back to this issue.

Didn't knew this file, deleting it solved the problem :

diego@desktop:~$ ssh pinguin@172.26.155.2
pinguin@172.26.155.2's password: 
Linux cerise 2.6.32-31-server #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 19:44:42 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Server!
 * Documentation:  http://www.ubuntu.com/server/doc

  System information as of Thu Apr 28 08:15:05 CEST 2011

  System load:    0.0              Processes:           89
  Usage of /home: 0.0% of 1.79TB   Users logged in:     0
  Memory usage:   3%               IP address for eth0: 172.26.155.2
  Swap usage:     0%

  Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/

0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

Last login: Wed Apr 27 23:07:55 2011 from 172.26.155.17
pinguin@cerise:~$

Thanks everybody for your help !

[Sal33m]

It could be a proxy issue.

Have you tried using a direct connection?

If you are using a proxy, you'll need to check the 'Manual proxy configuration' box, type in your proxy and port and then authenticate. You can find this in Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Preferences -> Network.

[pinballwizard]

dont use the dist-upgrade!!
you have 10.04 TLS this command will lead to upgrade the version to 10.10.
so it's only a very very last resort.

I'm almost certain you have this wrong.

[arrrghhh]

This looks like a known side effect of a recent update. Your file /etc/motd.tail has acquired some bogus text. (The update copied /etc/motd to /etc/motd.tail, so now you see the real system status, followed by old system status including a message that you have pending updates.)

Just delete /etc/motd.tail, or replace it with more useful text. Man, this is turning into an annoying issue. Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn't report a problem tracing back to this issue.

I didn't know about this either, thanks! Very odd issue... Durn false positives!

[elico]

webmin sometimes showed me something like that and it wasnt updated.

edit:
posted about it here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...82&postcount=3