[PLUG-TALK] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

[Drew G. Wallace]

Did you add repositories? Did you try a "sudo apt-get upgrade
--allow-unauthenticated" from terminal and view the pending package updates
in question? Better to narrow the repository in question and authenticate
with the source, in my opinion.

Drew

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 16:14 Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> I'm running Ubuntu MATE 16.04.
>
> The Software Updater showed up this afternoon. When I try to run it I
> get an error message:
>
>      Failed to download repository information. Check your Internet
> connection.
>
> When I "Try Again" it repeats. When I click "OK" I get a window that
> starts out with:
>
>      Some software couldn't be checked for updates.
>
> And then it gives me a long list. When I click "Install Now" I get the
> Authenticate window, into which I type my password. When I click
> "Authenticate" I get another window that says:
>
>      Requires installation of untrusted packages
>      This requires installing packages from unauthenticated sources.
>
> I'm given the option of "Settings..." or "OK". When I click on
> "Settings..." I'm given a window with all the settings for Software
> Updater, but no hint of any that need adjusting. I click "OK" and I see
> a window that starts with:
>
>      Updated software is available for this computer. Do you want to
> install it now?
>      The computer also needs to restart to finishing previous updates.
>
> The long list of software to be updated is displayed under that. When I
> click "Install Now" it loops back to:
>
>      Requires installation of untrusted packages
>      This requires installing packages from unauthenticated sources.
>
> Since one of the messages told me the computer needed to be restarted to
> finish previous updates, I did that. And before starting anything else,
> like Thunderbird, I ran Software Updater. It went through the same
> series of windows, but when I clicked on "Install" this time, the window
> exited without doing anything that I could see.
>
> I searched for what log to look at. The results indicated I should look
> in /var/log/apt. The last entries in history.log and term.log were on
> 2018-02-24 at 06:52:42.
>
> Is there another log I should look in to see what's going on with
> Software Updater? Also, has anyone else seen this problem? Is there a
> different tree I should be barking up?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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