Software repository failure

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 19:57, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

I saw it too (some weeks ago I think), but as I always update via the
command line it wasn't an issue for me.  I like to see what is being
updated.  It would only be those using the google repository that
would see it of course.

Colin L.