Stuart
This problem has been reported in a number of places. I'm using 8.04 on one machine and was using 7.10 on another.
On the 7.10 pc I installed another desktop environment, had problems and removed it, and then found the update manager didn't work correctly. Somehow a setting was altered or a glitch/bug unveiled. The update manager doesn't find updates but aptitude does!
8.04 works fine on the other pc and i use aptitude all the time as it is a high level package manager compared with apt-get or synaptic.
Most problems one has are the result of something that has been done after the install. All you can do is reinstall... well that's what i've found. Your customer isn't going to remember what they did most likely and it'll take too long to figure out. I'm just about to replace the 7.10 pc with 8.04.
I know that doesn't help much but it's not a problem with ubuntu as a fresh install.
james
2008/8/6 stuart@linusoft.co.uk:
Hi Wayne, It seems I can only upgrade when either SSH'd in remotely, or when using a virtual terminal (text). If I use synaptic (I think) or run apt-get from an xterm, it fails.
I hope that clarifies things.
I expect the config for synaptic is wrong, but I'm not too familiar with ubuntu.
Many thanks,
Stuart
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:00 +0100, Stuart Bailey wrote:
If I try running apt-get update / upgrade, update works fine, but upgrade reports that resource [ESSID xxxx} could not be accessed.
However, if I run apt-get from an SSH login, or a virtual terminal, everything work fine.
Sorry Stuart you lost me here, can you clarify when an apt-get upgrade works ?
Are you saying that if you log in to the box you can upgrade the packages but if you try and do it locally you can't ?
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