Failed updated by update manager...

[repfigit]

So I was in a partially connected network when I ran update manager. The network only allowed me to go to it's specific website to register to be able to use the internet. However, update manager was still able to get a list of updates that I needed and commenced to download them, however, soon after it said that the download failed and that the updates were not downloaded or installed.

Finally when I got a proper internet connection, I tried to get those same updates again, but they're not showing up anymore. It was a series of like 80 or so updates (I hadn't updated in a month or two).

Anyways, I wanted to know if there is any way to find out what those updates were and then update them manually, or perhaps do like an update rollback and get them again, or maybe telling update manager that those updates need to be redownloaded or whatever.

Thanks for the help.

[manishtech]

Did you try clicking on the Reload/Refresh button? I have seen many times the old update list being shows as it is cached in the system. I have to get a new list each and everytime I want to.

Or use this command in the Terminal

sudo apt-get update

[repfigit]

I tried sudo apt-get update, and that didn't seem to work. This is the output I got from it:

Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy Release
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release [27.6kB]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Sources
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Sources
Fetched 1B in 0s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Then I tried update manager again but it gave me nothing. I'm guessing that the 'Ign' in front of the url means that update manager is ignoring that source for whatever reason, but I checked my sources.list file and none of those sources are commented in there.

I'm not sure where the reload/refresh button that you're talking about is located, but I do click the 'check' button on update manager.

I guess another issue is also figuring out if this needs any attention at all. Is it ok to just ignore and move on? I'm just concerned whether some of those updates were crucial or not.

[repfigit]

Here's my sources.list file, figured someone might ask for it sooner or later.

#
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04.1 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080701)]/ hardy main restricted

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04.1 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080701)]/ hardy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse

## Ubuntu Tweak
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ubuntu hardy main

[manishtech]

I see no problems in the config file or in the update output. Its quite mysterious where all these went? Quite confusing....

Saying Frankly, I am not able to find out the real reason. :(
I would personally suggest you to wait for next update. New updates are available in 10 days usually.

[repfigit]

Well, that incident happened sometime in August 25th or 26th. I've gotten other updates since then, but none that accumulate to the number that I was supposed to get that day. When I tried to update that day it said it had around 80 new updates to install (like I said, I didn't use my computer nearly all summer). Since then I've only seen around 5-15 max updates being installed.

I've been trying to search online for anyone that has had a similar problem, but have had no luck. I guess if we can't figure out how to fix it, should it at least be something I should be worried about? I guess what I'm asking is, is it worth it for me to reinstall the OS and start from scratch to get those updates? I'd really rather not, but I'd prefer to do that than have things crashing on me in the future.

[manishtech]

I guess if we can't figure out how to fix it, should it at least be something I should be worried about? I guess what I'm asking is, is it worth it for me to reinstall the OS and start from scratch to get those updates? I'd really rather not, but I'd prefer to do that than have things crashing on me in the future.

I dont think you should reinstall the OS just for those updates. Its really not worth it. Your system is not going to become deadly insecure without those updates. I just suggest - Chill , nothing unexpected is going to happen. :cool:

[repfigit]

Alrighty, I'll do just that.

Thanks.

[Partyboi2]

Are you able to check what those updates where by looking in Synaptic Package Manager File>History?

Edit: what is the output to

sudo apt-get upgrade