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Otto-C
April 6th, 2017, 06:50 PM
Had not used my laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 for about 19 days.
To begin I went to Update Manager and check for updates.
My download speed is about 3.84Mbps. As the check was in progress it
appeared to be slow. It took just over 5 minutes to complete the process.
Now I got called away just after I started the install so length of time
that it took is unknown.
Now I went to command line and did:


sudo apt-get update
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main TranslationIndex
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Translation-en
100% [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1562::19)] [Connecting to s

What is going on. I have found something similar on Linux Mint.
What to do?

tia
otto-c

TheFu
April 6th, 2017, 09:38 PM
Ubuntu 12.04 support ends in a few weeks (4/28 according to the Ubuntu release website). It is passed time to move to a newer LTS release. BTW, you are not alone on this. I have 1 box to move ASAP. Guess I've put it off as long as possible too. ;)

As for slowness, check for normal slow network issues - slow DNS, slow ISP, or a VPN left running that you forgot about with an exit in some Asian country, perhaps?

Does speedtest show a slowdown?

Are any other sites being impacted? Is it just ubuntu repos? BTW, it appears you are using IPv6 - I've disabled that across all my systems. There have been reports of IPv6 causing issues.

I have a server in the USA running 12.04. Ran an update ...

$ time sudo apt-get update
....
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe Translation-en
Fetched 5,686 kB in 25s (225 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

real 0m30.852s
user 0m8.517s
sys 0m12.869s

$ date
Thu Apr 6 16:37:41 EDT 2017
So whatever it is, it isn't system-wide. It is just you. ;( Provided a timestamp so you'd know when I did it.