New install of Hardy not updating packages!?!

[Corey Burger]

This looks like an issue with your sources.list. Open Software Sources
on the Admin menu, make certain only the ubuntu sources are checked
and then try the graphical updater again.

Corey

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Paolo Di Battista
<paolodibattista at rogers.com> wrote:
> So far so good...
>
> Update manager downloaded and installed the updates. But I got two messages
> in the course of this that I don't understand:
>
> Here is what happened verbatim:
>
>>$ sudo update-manager
> sudo: unable to resolve host NAS
> [sudo] password for paolo: (I typed the passwd)
> current dist not found in the meta-release file
>
> after it displayed the last line Update Manager opened and it began updating
> normally after I clicked Install Updates.
>
> Paolo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corey Burger [mailto:corey.burger at gmail.com]
> Sent: June-19-08 12:44 AM
> To: paolo at atrius.ca; The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> Subject: Re: New install of Hardy not updating packages!?!
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Paolo Di Battista
> <paolodibattista at rogers.com> wrote:
>> Hi all. I recently cleaned off the system hard drive in my RAID 5 NAS and
>> installed Hardy i386.  Since the new install it keeps telling me there are
>> updates (the number is currently at 138). When I click on the notification
>> icon Update Manager opens, but when I then click on update the mouse
> pointer
>> changes to the "I'm thinking" circle but never changes from there.  I
> don't
>> get a password prompt or any change, it just keeps going until I force
>> Ubuntu to shut down the Update Manager application.
>>
>>
>>
>> Furthermore, there are some applications that just don't seem to start,
> for
>> example System-Administration-Login Window.  When I select it, two buttons
>> appear on the bottom of the screen: one is "Starting Administrative
>> Application" and the other is "Login Window", but after a few moments they
>> disappear and Login Window never opens.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> It looks like there is something wrong with gksudo, the wrapper around
> sudo. Open a terminal and type:
> sudo update-manager
>
> If that works, then the issue is gksudo and not sudo itself. If it
> doesn't, tell us, because the issue gets a whole lot more complex to
> fix.
>
> Corey
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