Outdated Update Information

[Daveski17]

Hello, I get a red triangle in the systems tray after the computer has been run for some time claiming my update information is outdated. Can this be removed at all? It is an old Belnea notebook that originally ran Vista.

Thanks, Dave.

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[deadflowr]

What happens when you run Software Updater?

[Daveski17]

What happens when you run Software Updater?

Thanks for your reply. First it informs me that it has failed to download repository information, then when I click 'OK' it goes ahead and updates if there are any.

Dave

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[DuckHook]

Please post error output (and only error output) from:

sudo apt-get update

Generally, running the command line app will give you error info that the graphical app won't. If no errors, then:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

...and post any error output from that.

[Daveski17]

Please post error output (and only error output) from:

sudo apt-get update

Generally, running the command line app will give you error info that the graphical app won't. If no errors, then:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

...and post any error output from that.

Erm ... OK, I'm not good with the terminal, could you tell me exactly how to get the error output. Thanks.

[oldos2er]

You should be able to copy/paste text from terminal into a post here.

[grahammechanical]

You have repositories that are no longer accessible. As you have found out Update Manager can deal with this and continue the Update. But we get the warning message. Have you enabled any repositories such as Personal Package Archives (PPA)?

Yes you have. Disable each of those repositories in turn until you find the one that is causing the warning. The others might be OK.

Regards.

[DuckHook]

Erm ... OK, I'm not good with the terminal, could you tell me exactly how to get the error output. Thanks.

When you bring up a terminal, just copy and paste my commands into the terminal using a right click of your mouse. When you execute the command, it will ask you for your password. Password entry provides no feedback, no ******* placeholders, but it is accepting your entry anyway. After hitting the enter button, a whole set of responses will scroll upward. This is the info that is hidden from you in the graphical app. You are looking for lines that have "WARNING" or "ERROR" in them. You can drag your mouse across the whole mess within the terminal app, right click to copy and then right click again to paste into the response box of this thread.

**Edit**
GrahamMechanical has already Ninja'd the issue. You indeed have a whole bunch of PPAs that are likely causing the problem. If I were you, I would get rid of every one of them and not add any back in until I was more familiar with how Ubuntu works and the security holes that PPAs bring with them.

[Daveski17]

OK, thanks DuckHook. IIRC I think I tried to update Pinta at some stage. I'm still a noob with Ubuntu and I often experiment on this old Belnea notebook. I have a new Lenovo preinstalled with Ubuntu that I deliberately don't mess with due to the fact that I'm not sure what I'm doing. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing lol.

You have repositories that are no longer accessible. As you have found out Update Manager can deal with this and continue the Update. But we get the warning message. Have you enabled any repositories such as Personal Package Archives (PPA)?

Yes you have. Disable each of those repositories in turn until you find the one that is causing the warning. The others might be OK.

Regards.

Thanks, I'm pretty sure it is the Pinta PPA that's causing this. I'll experiment disabling it.

[DuckHook]

OK, thanks DuckHook. IIRC I think I tried to update Pinta at some stage. I'm still a noob with Ubuntu and I often experiment on this old Belnea notebook. I have a new Lenovo preinstalled with Ubuntu that I deliberately don't mess with due to the fact that I'm not sure what I'm doing. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing lol.

Ahh. So it's your play box. If so, feel free to go nuts. No better way to learn than to break and fix.