10 Mar
2017
10 Mar
'17
6:03 p.m.
Hi all,
I was looking to upgrade my VPS to the latest Ubuntu release this afternoon but ran across
a problem. Whenever I try to run "do-release-upgrade” I receive the following
error:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [836 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,265 kB]
Fetched 1,266 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'xenial.tar.gz' against 'xenial.tar.gz.gpg'
gpg exited 1
Debug information:
gpg: Signature made Wed 07 Dec 2016 09:10:01 GMT using RSA key ID C0B21F32
gpg: /tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-r7c80csz/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: BAD signature from "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key (2012)
<ftpmaster@ubuntu.com<mailto:ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>>"
Authentication failed
Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the
server.
Searching
online<http://askubuntu.com/questions/842706/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-if-i-…ed>,
this looks like it could be a problem with the xenial.tar.gz file on the local repo cache.
Has anyone else had similar problems, and if so, how did you resolve them?
I suppose beyond that, has anyone successfully upgraded their Ubuntu VPS to 16.04? Were
there any problems along the way?
Thanks,
Paul
10 Mar
10 Mar
6:23 p.m.
Hi Paul,
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 06:03:07PM +0000, Paul Lewis wrote:
Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a
problem with the network or with the server.
Searching
online<http://askubuntu.com/questions/842706/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-if-i-…ed>,
this looks like it could be a problem with the xenial.tar.gz file on the local repo cache.
Has anyone else had similar problems, and if so, how did you resolve them?
If you edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to remove all mention of
apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com and do an apt-get update, does the
problem go away?
i.e. if the file currently says:
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/ubuntu/gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main
then change it to:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main
Or, with sed:
# sed -i.bak 's#http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/ubuntu#http://#'
to edit it in-place storing a backup as /etc/apt/sources.list.bak.
If that works, then BitFolk's apt-cacher has somehow cached a bad
file. I will be able to fix it by deleting the file from our cache.
If it doesn't work then the file on the mirror is (still) bad and
Ubuntu will have to fix it.
Cheers,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
15 Apr
15 Apr
8:34 a.m.
Hi,
I'm resurecting this thread because I've just had an idetical issue and
after some searching found Andy's post below on the bitfolk lurker
archive.
I can't see any follow up posts so I just thought I'd let you know that
following Andy's suggestion to edit source.list seems to have fixed the
issue for me and I've now managed to run the upgrade.
So it looks like the problem was with the BitFolk's apt-cacher.
Andy
--
Andrew Ransom
<aransom(a)gmail.com>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 06:03:07PM +0000, Paul Lewis wrote:
Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a
problem with the network or with the server.
Searching
online<http://askubuntu.com/questions/842706/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-if-i-…ed>,
this looks like it could be a problem with the xenial.tar.gz file on the local repo cache.
Has anyone else had similar problems, and if so, how did you resolve them?
If you edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to remove all mention of
apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com and do an apt-get update, does the
problem go away?
i.e. if the file currently says:
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/ubuntu/gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main
then change it to:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main
Or, with sed:
# sed -i.bak 's#http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/ubuntu#http://#'
to edit it in-place storing a backup as /etc/apt/sources.list.bak.
If that works, then BitFolk's apt-cacher has somehow cached a bad
file. I will be able to fix it by deleting the file from our cache.
If it doesn't work then the file on the mirror is (still) bad and
Ubuntu will have to fix it.
Cheers,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
16 Apr
16 Apr
12:18 a.m.
Hello,
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 04:34:17AM -0400, Andy Ransom wrote:
So it looks like the problem was with the
BitFolk's apt-cacher.
This has been a constant problem with apt-cacher-ng and
do-release-upgrade to every Ubuntu release for as long as I can
remember, but I don't know exactly where the fault lies. This
appears to only occur for the file that is downloaded during
do-release-upgrade that comes from a URL like:
/ubuntu-uk/dists/xenial-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/xenial.tar.gz
Deleting the file from the apt-cache will cause a new copy to be
fetched from the Ubuntu mirror and then things work, so it seems
like apt-cacher-ng is not able to tell when those files have been
updated.
I'm not sure if that is a bug in apt-cacher-ng or a bug in Ubuntu's
mirror setup. Probably acng since otherwise I suppose there'd be
huge problems with more normal HTTP proxies like squid.
Anyway, I have now reconfigured BitFolk's apt-cacher-ng instances to
not cache any URI like:
/dist-upgrader-all/.*\.tar.\gz$
so now none of these files will be found in cache; they will always
be downloaded from the real mirror each time.
(There are tons of other tar.gz files in the cache and they all work
fine, otherwise we'd see hash mismatches there too.)
Cheers,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
6:58 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:18:36 +0000
Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
This has been a constant problem with apt-cacher-ng
and
do-release-upgrade to every Ubuntu release for as long as I can
remember, but I don't know exactly where the fault lies. This
They have only themselves to blame for getting involved with that
'buntu lot in the first place, they should have stayed with the one
true faith like wot I did :-) :-)
Hi Andy, Hi Popey
--
John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server
9:50 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Andy Smith wrote:
Anyway, I have now reconfigured BitFolk's
apt-cacher-ng instances to
not cache any URI like:
/dist-upgrader-all/.*\.tar.\gz$
so now none of these files will be found in cache; they will always
be downloaded from the real mirror each time.
Thanks Andy, excellent service as always!
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, john lewis wrote:
They have only themselves to blame for getting
involved with that
'buntu lot in the first place, they should have stayed with the one
true faith like wot I did :-) :-)
Guilty as charged :)
I'm afraid I don't run Debian anywhere these days :(
Hi Andy, Hi Popey
Hi John, good to hear from you!
Andy
--
Andrew Ransom
<aransom(a)gmail.com>
11:42 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, john lewis wrote:
Andy at Bitfolk is great isn't he, I've had immediate response from him
on the (very) few occasions something has gone pear-shaped.
I have 2 desktops and 3 laptops all running Sid, my Bitfolk server and
Cube backup box running Stable, dunno why I need so many as am not even
updating my genealogy database these days. The main use for the laptop
is as a ebook reader 'cos I won't buy anything that is remotely
commercial like a kindle.
I miss the HantsLUG meetings, I went to Bristol a few times but it was
a totally different atmosphere with many of the guys into hacking
hardware and such.
I recently got introduced to CrossFit by a grandson's partner and am
really enjoying the pain of trying to get fit again. I struggle as I
am probably 2 to 3 times older than most of the others but the great
thing about CF is that all the exercises can be 'scaled' (adapted) to
suit age or ability. There is a big emphasis on community plus
proper one to one coaching unlike traditional gyms I have been to.
--
John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server
They have only themselves to blame for getting
involved with that
'buntu lot in the first place, they should have stayed with the one
true faith like wot I did :-) :-)
Guilty as charged :)
I'm afraid I don't run Debian anywhere these days :( 
12:32 p.m.
** john lewis <zen57162(a)zen.co.uk> [2018-04-16 12:42]:
** end quote
[john lewis]
If you don't mind the trek, we have monthly meets with talks (most of
the time, if I can manage to find speakers now it is down to me) in
Portsmouth (http://portsmouth.lug.org.uk/). HantsLUG has ended up in
limbo meetings wise, but Portsmouth is still going strong (largely
thanks to Lisi, and I am trying to keep up her good work).
Meets are on the third Saturday of the month between 1pm and 6pm (talks
generally about 3pm) within staggering distance of Hilsea station (well
Hilsea Halt as I've always known it) and with easy access from the A27.
This month (next Saturday) we have a talk on Node-RED. We are very
traditional with the bring-a-box style rather than pubs, and that is
attracting people from as far as Horsham, Worthing and IoW - small but
perfectly formed?! Stay as long or as little as you like. Bar that last
bit that was all on the website, but there you go :-)
I have to say I'm Ubuntu too, more pragmatic and easier to 'sell' to
customers as they're more likely to have heard of the name. There's a
chance the switch to Gnome will change that for my desktops, although
I'll probably end up with Ubuntu MATE.
Hi, btw John.
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On Mon, 16 Apr
2018, john lewis wrote:
Andy at Bitfolk is great isn't he, I've had immediate response from him
on the (very) few occasions something has gone pear-shaped.
I have 2 desktops and 3 laptops all running Sid, my Bitfolk server and
Cube backup box running Stable, dunno why I need so many as am not even
updating my genealogy database these days. The main use for the laptop
is as a ebook reader 'cos I won't buy anything that is remotely
commercial like a kindle.
I miss the HantsLUG meetings, I went to Bristol a few times but it was
a totally different atmosphere with many of the guys into hacking
hardware and such.
I recently got introduced to CrossFit by a grandson's partner and am
really enjoying the pain of trying to get fit again. I struggle as I
am probably 2 to 3 times older than most of the others but the great
thing about CF is that all the exercises can be 'scaled' (adapted) to
suit age or ability. There is a big emphasis on community plus
proper one to one coaching unlike traditional gyms I have been to. They have only themselves to blame for getting
involved with that
'buntu lot in the first place, they should have stayed with the one
true faith like wot I did :-) :-)
Guilty as charged :)
I'm afraid I don't run Debian anywhere these days :(
17 Apr
17 Apr
5:06 p.m.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:32:55 +0100
Paul Tansom <paul(a)aptanet.com> wrote:
If you don't mind the trek, we have monthly meets
with talks (most of
the time, if I can manage to find speakers now it is down to me) in
Portsmouth (http://portsmouth.lug.org.uk/). HantsLUG has ended up in
limbo meetings wise, but Portsmouth is still going strong (largely
thanks to Lisi, and I am trying to keep up her good work).
Hi Paul, thanks for inviting me but Portsmouth is about twice as far as
I am happy driving these days. Age is catching up with me, although I am
reasonably fit, but the stress of driving is a bit much and it really
tires me out.
I have to say I'm Ubuntu too, more pragmatic and
easier to 'sell' to
customers as they're more likely to have heard of the name. There's a
chance the switch to Gnome will change that for my desktops, although
I'll probably end up with Ubuntu MATE.
I disliked it immensely when Debian changed to Gnome2 and very quickly
looked for alternatives, finally settled on the MATE desktop. I
don't get on with tablets or smartphones so the traditional mouse
+keyboard style will see me out. I like to have applications running
each own workspace so generally set the desktop up with half a dozen.
I seem to recall you (and others) having umpteen terminals running in
a window but never got on with that, wasn't the greatest user of the
command line although I think some things are better done that way, I
don't use synaptic for example but instead do daily aptitude update &
aptitude safe-upgrade (I am running Sid after all).
Say Hi to anyone who may still remember me
John
7:42 p.m.
I disliked it immensely when Debian changed to Gnome2
and very
quickly
looked for alternatives, finally settled on the MATE desktop. I
I was all grumpy when debian started Gnome2 stuff. I was using icewm at
the time and was quite happy with it.
I settled for xfce4, which seems pretty focused on just-work rather
than be-fancy.
It sort of puts me in the last-gen section at work, but so what, I
don't need to troubleshoot my debian machine ever, it just works.
The ubuntu kids seem to spend more time working around apparmor,
upstart and whatever nonsense ubuntu comes up with...
Conrad
16 Apr
16 Apr
4:50 p.m.
On 2018-04-15 5:18 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 04:34:17AM -0400, Andy Ransom
wrote:
For what it's worth, I've seen this happen not infrequently using
apt-mirror to take entire local copies of repositories as well.
Whether it's due to a bug in the metadata generation or some other
unsynchronized change between packages and the release files, I think
it's actually a repo problem. Simply waiting a while or using another
upstream repo has fixed it for me in an emergency, but that's unlikely
to be practical for you I guess.
Ant
So it looks like the problem was with the
BitFolk's apt-cacher.
This has been a constant problem with apt-cacher-ng and
do-release-upgrade to every Ubuntu release for as long as I can
remember, but I don't know exactly where the fault lies.
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