8.04 automatic updates can't be authenticated!

[wkulecz]

Had 25 updates for my 8.04 system waiting for me when I got back from vacation. Went to apply them and got an "can't be authenticated" warning message. Wasn't clear which ones or if none of them could be authenticated.

I suspect its a problem with the repositories and will resolve if I try again later, but wanted to post a note so someone can look into it in case one of the repository machines has been hacked.

--wally.

[wkulecz]

Bump!

Now I'm concerned. Tried automatic updates again.

Updates to things like apt, gvfs, libgtk2.0-common are in the NOT AUTHENTICATED list.

What is going on?

I am not allowing this update to proceed!

--wally.

[Ape3000]

What repos are you using? Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

[wkulecz]

What repos are you using? Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

sources.list:

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-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse


medibuntu.list:

deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

Doesn't appear to be anything I've not been using since 6.06.

--wally.

[wkulecz]

Problem seems to be the key servers. Playing around with symantic, I'm getting a lot of GPG errors if I click the Reload button.

Are udates working today for any 8.04 users? Particularly libgtk2.0-common.

I notice apt is no longer in the NOT AUTHENTICATED list, while it was this morning. So perhaps repo maintainers are aware and working the issue.

--wally.

[Ape3000]

Please post here the output of this command:

apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-common

[wkulecz]

Please post here the output of this command:

apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-common

Sorry I'm late getting back to this, but the issue seems fixed now with some infor I'd found in other threads.

But doing it now, I get:

libgtk2.0-common:
Installed: 2.12.9-3ubuntu5
Candidate: 2.12.9-3ubuntu5
Version table:
*** 2.12.9-3ubuntu5 0
500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy-updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.12.9-3ubuntu2 0
500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy/main Packages


Issue seems to have been fixed by a couple of
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
cycles and a recent update to Update Manager.

--wally.