View Full Version : [ubuntu] Authentication Failed for 8.04 LTS Upgrade
DaddyUnit
June 13th, 2008, 09:44 PM
New Ubuntu/Linux user here
Update manager says "New distribution release '8.04' is available. I click "Upgrade"
A window pops up with release notes. I click "Upgrade"
A window pops up "Authentication failed. Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server"
Any help would be appreciated.
Pumalite
June 13th, 2008, 11:11 PM
Check your connection. Remove all third parties from your /etc/apt/sources.list
DaddyUnit
June 17th, 2008, 01:34 PM
Thanks for the response.
Network connection is good (I can get here).
Most everything in /etc/apt/sources.list is commented out. The only two lines that are not commented out are:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe main multiverse restricted #Added by software-properties
Pumalite
June 17th, 2008, 01:37 PM
Post:
df -h
DaddyUnit
June 17th, 2008, 03:28 PM
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 72G 2.5G 66G 4% /
varrun 505M 224K 505M 1% /var/run
varlock 505M 0 505M 0% /var/lock
udev 505M 68K 505M 1% /dev
devshm 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 505M 34M 472M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/scd0 2.0M 2.0M 0 100% /media/cdrom0
Pumalite
June 17th, 2008, 04:27 PM
From what version are you trying to update?
DaddyUnit
June 17th, 2008, 10:26 PM
Thanks for trying to help me out. I finally downloaded the alternate disk and upgraded from the CD. I'm somewhat concerned about my ability to perform future updates/upgrades (i.e. it would be nice to know why this didn't work), but I'm over the crisis for now. I was upgrading from 7.10 by the way. Thanks again.
Pumalite
June 17th, 2008, 10:32 PM
You are welcome. Good luck.
Skip Da Shu
June 20th, 2008, 07:02 PM
From what version are you trying to update?
I am having same problem. I am trying to upgrade from v7.10 to v8.04. Same error message. I use an apt-cacher server (by including /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy. But I renamed that file, restarted and still get the same error.
My sources.list on this machine:
# deb cdrom:[Xubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to newer versions of the distribution.
#
## MAIN - Release v7.10
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
## MAIN UPDATES - Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
## UNIVERSE
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
## MULTIVERSE
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
## PROPOSED
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
## BACKPORTS
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports restricted main multiverse universe
## CANONICAL
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
## SECURITY
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
Strange thing is... I did this a month or so ago on several nearly identical machines w/o problems. I held off doing this one till now to have a v7.10 machine still up and because this one is a Samba server (but so is one other of the upgraded machines).
If I go into Synaptic PM and do a reload it gets to 'downloading file 15 of 21' and hangs there. Is this indicative of one of the servers really being down?
Skip Da Shu
June 26th, 2008, 02:17 AM
some dayes later... still occurs,no change
Pumalite
June 26th, 2008, 02:39 AM
You know that you have to have your Gutsy fully updated before attempting an upgrade?
Skip Da Shu
June 26th, 2008, 02:48 AM
You know that you have to have your Gutsy fully updated before attempting an upgrade?
Yes, update manager finds no pending updates for v7.10
Pumalite
June 26th, 2008, 03:12 AM
Have you tried upgrading with the Alternate CD?
Skip Da Shu
June 26th, 2008, 04:33 AM
Have you tried upgrading with the Alternate CD?
Nope, Anything tricky about doing that? or just plug, select, play?
Skip Da Shu
June 29th, 2008, 12:22 AM
Have you tried upgrading with the Alternate CD?
Downloaded and burnt a good CD of it... can you point me to some instructions on how to do it from this CD?
Pumalite
June 29th, 2008, 12:28 AM
This might help:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
Skip Da Shu
June 29th, 2008, 06:08 AM
This might help:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
That was just the ticket... Thanx much, machine up and crunching BOINC, samba serving the 'backups' drive, being the alternate 'browser list maintainer' and all under v8.04 as I type.
SOLVED for me anyway
Pumalite
June 29th, 2008, 02:12 PM
You are welcome. Good luck.
manoka
December 11th, 2008, 02:51 PM
Sorry - I was able to solve this case ...
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