[SOLVED] updates failing in some PCs

[candtalan]

I have several pcs - old - each with 8.04.
I am getting update errors on two of them but not on others on the same network:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic_2.6.24-19.36_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/evolution-data-server_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/evolution-data-server-common_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libedataserver1.2-9_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libcamel1.2-11_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libebook1.2-9_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libecal1.2-7_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libedata-book1.2-2_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libedata-cal1.2-6_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libegroupwise1.2-13_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libgdata1.2-1_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libgdata-google1.2-1_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libedataserverui1.2-8_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evolution-data-server/libexchange-storage1.2-3_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/poppler/libpoppler2_0.6.4-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/poppler/libpoppler-glib2_0.6.4-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-headers-2.6.24-19_2.6.24-19.36_all.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic_2.6.24-19.36_i386.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/poppler/poppler-utils_0.6.4-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
404 Not Found


some of the 41 updates were successful but not the final 19, including kernels

any ideas please?
tia

[coffeecat]

The repository server was probably down. The 404 suggests this. It happens occasionally. Either wait a few hours and try again, or change to another repository server using Synaptic.

Edit: or - have you tested internet connectivity with the two affected machines? Have they lost access to the internet for any reason? Were you updating/upgrading the several machines simultaneously or one after the other? If the latter it would suggest a server problem; the former a problem with the affected machines contacting the server.

[candtalan]

thanks
internet access is ok each time, so maybe the server has a prob. I will try later

[candtalan]

The same thing, or nearly the same, thing happened again today on the same kit, while other slightly faster kit was ok.

I decided to use terminal and cl with apt-get just in case there was something wrong with some of the gui install - these are very slow machines.

first
sudo apt-get update
(for the record, this updates the index (information list))

then
sudo apt-get upgrade
(this brings the actual updates down, and does not bring a whole new version 'upgrade' which I had thought before)

it all went ok, albeit quite slowly.
I concluded that the PCs were so slow that using the gui update manager was probably bumping into server time out or something like that.

Thanks for your responses.
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