Software repository failure

Jim jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Mon Jul 15 18:51:57 UTC 2019


On 7/14/19 6:08 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 03:58:31PM -0500, Jim 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?
> 
> If it was a PPA, then we were doing hardware maintenance on
> ppa.launchpad.net on Saturday (advertised on
> https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus), which would have caused this sort
> of behaviour.
> 

See my message to the 'other' Colin. Seems Google changed it's name and 
that caused the problem. I do find it strange that no one else seems to 
have run into this.

Regards,  Jim





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