agrowcott
November 9th, 2016, 04:26 PM
A week or two ago I installed XUbuntu Xenial. All went well.
The last few days there is a warning icon telling me that my update information is out of date. The GUI tool was useless, so I tried "apt update".
The first problem I had was that it was trying to contact various hosts using their IPv6 adress and this was simply hanging.
I know we're all in this trendy new IPv6 world, but it would be best if there was a timeout of a second or so and then it retried using IPv4. Anyway I fixed that by editing /etc/hosts to resolve the addresses to the IPv4 values.
The second problem I had was missing "Release" files.
$> apt update
Ign:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Err:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security Release
Connection failed
Ign:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Err:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial Release
Connection failed
Ign:7 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Err:8 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial Release
Connection failed
Err:9 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates Release
Connection failed
Err:10 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports Release
Connection failed
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get around this issue.
The last few days there is a warning icon telling me that my update information is out of date. The GUI tool was useless, so I tried "apt update".
The first problem I had was that it was trying to contact various hosts using their IPv6 adress and this was simply hanging.
I know we're all in this trendy new IPv6 world, but it would be best if there was a timeout of a second or so and then it retried using IPv4. Anyway I fixed that by editing /etc/hosts to resolve the addresses to the IPv4 values.
The second problem I had was missing "Release" files.
$> apt update
Ign:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Err:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security Release
Connection failed
Ign:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Err:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial Release
Connection failed
Ign:7 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Err:8 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial Release
Connection failed
Err:9 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates Release
Connection failed
Err:10 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports Release
Connection failed
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get around this issue.