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Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsWhen I do 'vagrant ssh' from the homestead directory, I'm told to upgrade and then I get an error when I try to do so.
So when I did 'vagrant ssh,' I got the following:
239 packages can be updated.
36 updates are security updates.
New release '14.10' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
So I ran the 'do-release-upgrade' command and then got the following:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,147 kB]
Fetched 1,148 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'utopic.tar.gz' against 'utopic.tar.gz.gpg'
gpg exited 2
Debug information:
gpg: fatal: can't open fd 26 for status output: Bad file descriptor
secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/0
Authentication failed Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server.
What should I do please?
Hampton Paulk
5,093 PointsThis seems like a network issue of sorts, perhaps NAT settings. Can you post your configuration details here?
Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsHi Hampton, thank you for your reply and for your work at Treehouse! I've learned so much from you guys. Sorry for my ignorance-I don't know how to do what you asked. I don't know how to find my configuration details. Would you mind explaining, please?
2 Answers
Hampton Paulk
5,093 PointsTom Cawthorn would you mind helping Jenny Swift out on this? You have always been good at finding a way of fixing these strange issues.
thomascawthorn
22,986 Pointshmmm I will try.. but it's not something I've come across before!
This thread seems to be pretty related, and here are the ubunto instructions for upgrading to 4.10.
You'll notice they suggest / use an alternative method to updating - calling apt-get update before do-release-upgrade.
Also make sure you're putting sudo at the front!
Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsHmm...thanks, Tom, for your efforts, but I'm still having troubles. So I tried:
sudo apt-get update
but still got the same error when I then did:
sudo do-release-upgrade
So then I tried:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
There was lots of successful-looking activity as well but this at the end:
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
So I tried:
sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
But then when I ran the vagrant command it said:
The program 'vagrant' is currently not installed. To run 'vagrant' please ask your administrator to install the package 'vagrant'
After this (as well as trying, without success, to install vagrant and virtual box, both which I thought were already installed), my Finder became unusable (I couldn't open it). It just gave me a spinning wheel and was unresponsive, even after a computer restart.
So I did a restore from backup on my Mac and that fixed Finder.
Would you mind please telling me how important you think the upgrade is? Since I don't really understand what I'm doing with those terminal commands and there doesn't seem to be an obvious solution to my problem and I somehow managed to temporarily mess up my computer, I'm thinking maybe I should just forget about trying to upgrade for now, unless of course it's important.
thomascawthorn
22,986 Pointswoah! Are you running these commands inside or outside of the box? i.e. do you ssh into your box and then try to update?
Looking now at the first paragraph of the ubuntui docs I sent you:
In fact, Ubuntu 14.10 has no big special features or updates, it is just a bug-fixing & package-updating release, but it’s a good release for those people who want to have the most-recent packages in the their system.
So it doesn't sound too important.
Sounds like you've had a nightmare! Have you tried again since recovering your mac?
Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsI thought I ran the commands after doing vagrant ssh. But perhaps I'm wrong.
Good to know it's no big deal if I don't do the update.
No, I haven't tried again yet. And yeah, it wasn't much fun. But I can laugh about it. Ah the adventures of learning to program. :)
Thanks again for trying!
Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsJenny Swift
21,999 PointsHampton Paulk, no one has responded so could you please help me with this?