@Barry and @Steve, in my case when I see this error, the most probably cause is that update-manager has misidentified my repositories in sources.list as third party repositories and disabled all of them. Without telling me. As such it can't find the essential packages - because they don't exist! However I am confused because there is no indication it has disabled the essential repositories - after the process aborts, the sources.list is reset back to its original value. An error message that suggested that the problem is due to overloaded mirror would be very confusing and misleading. It might lead me to file bug reports against the wrong package, e.g. approx.
I have reported this problem in #773823, which unfortunately was merged with a different bug. Requests to have this fixed have been ignored. As such, if the mirrors are getting overloaded, maybe this is because people are unable to use anything but the official mirrors? Unfortunately, it would appear Ubuntu really don't care about people who don't use the official supported mirrors; these mirrors can be expensive to use due to Internet charges in Australia. I really don't want to have to download the same files repeatedly for each computer I upgrade over a slow and expensive ADSL connection if I don't have to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873468 Title: Update to latest Release failed for overloaded mirrors with no descriptive error message To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/873468/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
