[PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

[Rigel Hope]

By way of actually trying to help out, I would check the apt and dpkg logs
(in /var/log) to try and make sense of it first. Unless you've done that
and have an impression already, in which case I'd invite you to share.
Maybe in a pastebin?


Less helpfully, when mint was the only source for the MATE and Cinnamon
packages, I found it a lot more useful. Now that those are available all
over, i'm back to Debian or Ubuntu.


On Feb 27, 2018 4:31 PM, "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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Dick Steffens


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