Software repository failure

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:58:31 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> I was trying to update Ubuntu 18.04 on a laptop I seldom use and got a 
> message saying it could not connect to a repository check your internet 
> connection. Nothing was wrong with the connection. It did not say which 
> repository it could not connect to, so what log do I look at to identify it?

As I guess, it is possible systemd-resolved has gone south, which means DNS 
lookups might be failing.  Try (in a terminal window):

sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved

and try again.


> 
> Regards,  Jim
> 
> 

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