My Ubuntu 10.10 gets no more updates

[bleriot13]

Hi,

My old Ubuntu box, now running 10.10, is getting no more updates since a few days ago.

When I say "no more updates" I mean that when I try to get these via the update manager the answer is "there is none available", not that any kind of error appears.

I think that it all began about three weeks ago; the update manager downloaded a kernel update (2.6.35-23) but it was unable to install it by some reason. In fact, my box is running 2.6.35-22 since then, although I know (I have another ubuntu 10.10 computer) that the kernel has been updated at least twice since then.

However, I was getting some updates after this problem, although these were fewer every day. I get none since two days ago.

I have made no changes concerning update sources etc. so a configuration error should not be the cause of the problem. In fact, the only administrative task I perform is to launch update manager every now and then.

My theory is that, since my kernel is frozen at version 35-22, the updates that appear recently are not valid for my box, so they can not be applied and therefore not shown in the update manager.

What should I do to get the new kernels and restablish the update process to a normal state?

Thank you very much.

BTW: Excuse my poor english; it is not my mother tongue.

[Honzifox]

I am getting this issue as well. I tried to update via the terminal with the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get clean

...which updated wine for me (progress!) but not anything else. I have not had any updates in about a week or two now.

Please help!

[Sef]

Applications > Accessories > Terminal

Then type in this command

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Copy and paste the results here.

[Honzifox]

Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [197B]
Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_US                                                                                    
Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release [1,347B]                                                                                                          
Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages [1,076B]                                      
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg                                                       
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg            
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US               
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US         
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg                                         
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release                           
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release                
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg           
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release 
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages                                           
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release               
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Fetched 2,620B in 1s (1,963B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[presence1960]

you have all lucid 10.04 repositories, I thought you were running 10.10?

[Sef]

you have all lucid 10.04 repositories, I thought you were running 10.10?

I noticed the same thing.

Op - go to System > About Ubuntu and what version of Ubuntu does it list. (Note: If you are running maverick, you may get an error saying that you are running 11.04, ignore it and just post the results, including that one.)

[Honzifox]

Hmm, yes. Wow. I really dropped the ball on that one

Yea, I have 10.04, i'm terribly sorry for the mixup...but alas I am still not getting updates. Does it being 10.04 change anything that could be of use to me? Should I start a new thread?

Again, sorry for the fail D:

[Sathors]

I have exactly the same problem than you, no more updates since two weeks ago. Before I had nearly one update each day, and now nothing ...

[zastomito]

Same thing here. Running Lucid, stopped getting updates 5 or 6 days ago. I have Maverick installed on VirtualBox and also not getting any updates for the last few days.

[grahammechanical]

I have not had updates for a few days. It is not a problem. We only get updates when there are updates available. Before I had broadband I would run Update Manager every week or so and click check . It would often return a "there are none available" message. Now I have broadband Update Manager does a check soon after booting. If there are updates I get a message. If I do not get a message, I do not worry.

Regards

BTW: Excuse my poor English. It IS my mother tongue. Quality of communication is more important than quality of language.

PS. It is a holiday season in many parts of the world. I do not celebrate myself but I understand that many people have time off and do things other than work. Or develop Linux.