Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Update Manager fails to update, now 64 days out of date.

[Sun.Dial]

Hello,
I am trying to update using Update Manager and I get this message:

Failed to fetch "Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net//ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found"

My system is 64 days out of date now.

I have looked elsewhere for an answer and some others have had similar problems, but I have not found a reason for it happening, nor an answer. I wonder if anyone can help me please. I have been using Ubuntu for several months, can use the Terminal if I have the right commands to issue, but beyond that have limited knowledge of the system.
Thank you
Sun

[davidmohammed]

can you try using a different software source ?

click the "Download From" drop down on the software sources window
Choose Other...

Choose a software source from another country - e.g. United Kingdom - archive.ubuntu.com

Choose Choose Server

[Sun.Dial]

Thanks, I tried the Swiss server and got the same message unfortunately.
Sun

[davidmohammed]

can you run in a terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade


copy and paste the text displayed here within code-tags (# in the toolbar when you reply)

[Sonsum]

Hello,
I am trying to update using Update Manager and I get this message:

Failed to fetch "Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net//ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found"

My system is 64 days out of date now.

I have looked elsewhere for an answer and some others have had similar problems, but I have not found a reason for it happening, nor an answer. I wonder if anyone can help me please. I have been using Ubuntu for several months, can use the Terminal if I have the right commands to issue, but beyond that have limited knowledge of the system.
Thank you
Sun

Oddly enough, this effects me too

[Sun.Dial]

Hello David, thanks for the help, here is the text you asked for:



hope that gives you more of an insight into what is going on.
Regards,
Sun
sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for bb:
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net//ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid Release
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid Release
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_GB
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_GB
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Get: 1 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid/main Packages
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid/main Packages
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid/main Packages
404 Not Found
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net (http://ppa.launchpad.net/) lucid/main Packages
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid Release
Get: 2 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates Release [44.7kB]
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security Release
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/main Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/main Sources
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid/multiverse Sources
Get: 3 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/main Packages [247kB]
Get: 4 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/restricted Packages [3,252B]
Get: 5 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/main Sources [89.8kB]
Get: 6 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/restricted Sources [1,292B]
Get: 7 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/universe Packages [62.5kB]
Get: 8 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/universe Sources [18.8kB]
Get: 9 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/multiverse Packages [3,771B]
Get: 10 http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-updates/multiverse Sources [1,499B]
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://mirror.switch.ch (http://mirror.switch.ch/) lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Fetched 473kB in 2s (186kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net//ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
flashplugin-installer libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686
libgstfarsight0.10-0 python-farsight
8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.0MB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 [723kB]
Get: 2 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 [3,779kB]
Get: 3 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main libc6-i686 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 [1,228kB]
Get: 4 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main libc-dev-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 [213kB]
Get: 5 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main libc6-dev 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 [4,839kB]
Get: 6 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3 [19.9kB]
Get: 7 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main libgstfarsight0.10-0 0.0.17-2ubuntu2 [174kB]
Get: 8 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main python-farsight 0.0.17-2ubuntu2 [14.9kB]
Fetched 11.0MB in 10s (1,006kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 222192 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1 (using .../libc-bin_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc-bin ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...

(Reading database ... 222192 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1 (using .../libc6_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Setting up libc6 (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
(Reading database ... 222192 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-i686 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1 (using .../libc6-i686_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i686 ...
Preparing to replace libc-dev-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1 (using .../libc-dev-bin_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc-dev-bin ...
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1 (using .../libc6-dev_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.1 (using .../flashplugin-installer_10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Preparing to replace libgstfarsight0.10-0 0.0.17-2ubuntu1 (using .../libgstfarsight0.10-0_0.0.17-2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgstfarsight0.10-0 ...
Preparing to replace python-farsight 0.0.17-2ubuntu1 (using .../python-farsight_0.0.17-2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-farsight ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc6-i686 (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...

Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...
Setting up libc6-dev (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3) ...
Downloading...
--2010-07-05 17:18:10-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4739416 (4.5M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz'

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2010-07-05 17:18:15 (973 KB/s) - `./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz' saved [4739416/4739416]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.

Setting up libgstfarsight0.10-0 (0.0.17-2ubuntu2) ...

Setting up python-farsight (0.0.17-2ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

[davidmohammed]

Hi there,
two ways to resolve this:

go to your administration - software sources screen and click on your other software tab.

unclick all the lines which start "ppa" or a line that says something like "unknown software source" - click close and reload when prompted.

the other way -

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

look for any line that starts deb http://ppa.launchpad.net

put a # in front of that line
i.e. line reads #deb http://ppa.launchpad.net ....

save

sudo apt-get update

[Sun.Dial]

David, I used your first method and the error message has now gone and Update manager says the system is up to date.
The lines I unchecked were:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu
and
http://ppa.launchpad.net//ppa/ubuntu
Are these no longer viable sources?
Is my system now only partially updated now that these software sources are unavailable?
Thanks for your help.
Sun

[davidmohammed]

I suspect that there are no lucid specific packages within those ppa's.

If you need updated software then you need to see if anyone else has a ppa that meets your needs.

Other than that, I dont see any problems running with older, non updatable software other than that, if a future software update breaks your older software, naturally the older software will not work.

[Sun.Dial]

David,
Thanks for the tips, I'll wait and see then.
Regards,
Sun

[Sonsum]

Oddly enough, this effects me too

My issue was the fact that I had a duplicate universe repo added to my sources. I didn't think that would be an issue!

[selen]

Please could someone help me ? I have already for a one week all of this is written on my screen , what should I do ?

Boot from (hd0,0)ext3c79581de-ca61-4c8c-99f7-2a357b7ab895
Starting up...
Loading,please wait...
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
-Boot args(cat/proc/cmdline)
-Check rootdelay=(did the system wait long enought ?)
-Check root=(did the system wait the right device?)
-Missing modules (cat/proc/modules;ls/dev)
Alert!/dev/disk/by-uuid/c79581de-ca61-4c8c-99f7-2a35b7ab895 does not exist. Dropping to a shell !
BusyBox v1.10.2(Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-ubuntu7) built-in shell(ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)

[davidmohammed]

please start a new thread with your issue. Thanks.