Start up errors after installing 12.04.3 32 bit

[steeldriver]

I'm not claiming to understand why there are *any* extra characters there though (mistranslated or otherwise)... fwiw the 'Temporary failure resolving' error often just means the network is down I think - I would try pinging gb.archive.ubuntu.com (by name, and then by IP if that doesn't work) if you haven't already done so - are you in the recovery shell btw? if so networking won't be enabled by default

[patdundee]

Hi Guys
The update was not working because for some reason the server had lost its DNS server settings.
After putting these back it still had issues so i copied a sources file from another server and replaced the existing one.
The ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-precise.list was in the sources.list.d folder so i removed that also
It is now updating and upgrading and also seems to boot up a lot quicker. I am currently accessing through SSH and am not in front of the screen so I cannot yet see if the pipe issue is resolved. I would think though that as it is rebooting in normal time now (approx 30 seconds) and not taking some 3 minutes that it has also resolved this issue. I will check in a few hours in the morning and will let you know.
Many thanks for the help and advice.

It is strange as this was a clean install from the download of 12.04.3 direct from Ubuntu site as an ISO file

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[Bashing-om]

patdundee; Well !

Strange things do happen, but I saw nothing amiss with the original sources.list file, and I was able to access the mirror in question. I will go long with steeldriver and say some where something got xlated - DNS activities (??) .. Will await further advisements.

@ steeldriver, as always I appreciate your thoughts and it is a pleasure when ya drop in.

all's well that ends well