Server Update and Upgrade

[ibjsb4]

Those ULR's appear to be non-working. Can you try a different mirror?

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors

[vasdjs]

Hi Still stuck on lock...
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

I'll try to redirect to another mirror, but not sure how to do this from the command line.

[vasdjs]

Thought I'd cracked it....
Added the following (but edited to "lucid") to my sources.list
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
Then ran
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf immediately followed by sudo apt-get update. It scrolled thru reams of updates before sticking on
Get: 71 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-backports/multiverse Packages [1,378B]
Get: 72 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-backports/main Sources [9,423B]
Get: 73 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-backports/restricted Sources [14B]
Get: 74 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-backports/universe Sources [24.1kB]
Get: 75 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-backports/multiverse Sources [1,633B]
99% [10 Translation-en_GB bzip2 0B]

This looks more like some kind of time out than anything else???

[vasdjs]

Seems like this has died a death and I'm no further forward....there must be a comprehensive guide to updating somewhere?

[dino99]

why are you mixing lucid & precise ? Are you trying to break it ?

look at your sources and maybe do some cleaning

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[vasdjs]

Hi Dino99
Many thanks for picking this up.
My sources list is all lucid. The reason you see precise in my earlier post is that I copied it from another post and tried it since it was supposed to work with lucid as well as precise (with editing).
My sources.list currently looks like this:- (the #V are the lines I currently have hashed out to try to resolve the problem)

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
#vdeb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
#vdeb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security multiverse


Any assistance much appreciated.
KR's vasdjs

[vasdjs]

Last orders...can anybody help further?

There are way too many half baked posts on updating. When I get to the bottom of this I'm going to write a comprehensive guide. Honest.