Binary package hint: update-manager
OK. I was using Ubuntu 9.10, and might still be but get the xubuntu closedown and start up screens, and I think that something has gone wrong. CD iso downloaded today 01/11/2009
I initially downloaded the alternate install CD so as to upgrade offline. I ran the cd and it aborted half way through due to lack of space for the install. I binned a load of 'stuff' and put hte alternate installl CD in the drive. I then got the correct message on screen about teh upgrade material having been found. It then asked me if I wished to upgrade from the on line version. I said yes, and let it do its thing. Several error maeeages appeared during the install and I clicked them away. (can't remember what they were, there were several one of which was that canonical did not support some tings anymore) with about 2 to 3 hours later and with 5 minutes to go I got some error message about the upgrade being aborted because it couldn't find something. (don't know what). It then fiddled around for a little while, got rid of the upgrade screen and came back to the original desktop. I left it a while and then closed down. It closed down with the xubuntu rat thing in the middle of the screen, and the blue xubuntu colours. When I started it again I now get the xubuntu splash screen on starting and what appears to be the xubuntu logon screen. This is not what was there before. I chose the gnome session and get what appears to be ordinary Ubuntu, and when I ask it what it is system>about ubuntu it tells me that it is Ubuntu 9.10.
How can I tell what has happened and how do I get it back the way it was?
If this turns out not to be a bug, I am sorry but it was not what I was expecting and it just seems odd. When I try to upgrade now I get teh following error message, which means not much to me.
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/universe/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-backports/Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-backports/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-backports/universe/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-backports/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-proposed/Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-proposed/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-proposed/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-proposed/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-proposed/universe/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2 Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/Release
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/source/Sources.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/restricted/source/Sources.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/universe/source/Sources.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/multiverse/source/Sources.gz Cannot initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I think I have solved some of this and believe that it is several problems.
1. The gb.archive.ubuntu probably caused the update problems, for some reason I cannot connect to it. When I asked synaptic to pick the best server it picked another one which worked and now I can now update. Traffic or otherwise I do not know the reason for the unable to connect to the gb.archive thing ....traffic?
2. As for the xubuntu stuff, I have no real idea. Could it be connected?