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Software Manager - Cannot check security updates box

Asked by Steven Rose

I am not entirely sure if I should be concerned about this or not, my 'Software Sources' (software-manager-gtk) on the updates tab, important security updates is not checked, and will not allow me to check the box.

On closer inspection there is now 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe' in my third party sources. I have not altered anything myself, when Ubuntu was installed it was all present and correct, but lately it has moved itself to the third party list.

I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1, with all the latest updates, and such.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

May be a transient please retry.

By the way please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

copy and paste the contents here.

Thank you

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Steven Rose (steveydoteu) said : 		#2

Still the same.

# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse

## Medibuntu
## Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/
## GPG: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
# deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

## Miro (official)
## See: http://www.getmiro.com/download/ubuntu.php
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu hardy/

## My PPA (https://launchpad.net/~steveydoteu/+archive)
## No GPG, PPA.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/steveydoteu/ubuntu hardy main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/steveydoteu/ubuntu hardy main

## Amarok 2 (Nightlies)

## Michael Vogt PPA - Ubu Dev. Synaptics updates and more
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mvo/ubuntu hardy main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mvo/ubuntu hardy main

## Debuntu.org
## GPG: wget http://repository.debuntu.org/GPG-Key-chantra.txt -O- | sudo apt-key add -
deb http://repository.debuntu.org/ hardy multiverse
# deb-src http://repository.debuntu.org/ hardy multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe

# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

It seems related to Debuntu.org repository

## Debuntu.org
## GPG: wget http://repository.debuntu.org/GPG-Key-chantra.txt -O- | sudo apt-key add -
deb http://repository.debuntu.org/ hardy multiverse
# deb-src http://repository.debuntu.org/ hardy multiverse
# ---------------- The row below give your issue ---------------------------------------------------------
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main

You can temporarily rem the row... and try
so put a # at the begininning of the row

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Please give your user password when requested, and change the row:

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe

to

# ---------------- Temporarily Remmed because i have a upgrade issue --------------------------
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Save and exit from /etc/apt/sources.list

Then please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get autoremove

Please give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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Steven Rose (steveydoteu) said : 		#4

Its strange because I have already tried all of this prior to posting the question, but to no avail. I ended up copying back sources.list.old

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nicedude (crazy-net-ghost) said : 		#5

I can confirm that I am experiencing the same thing with Ubuntu 8.04 as you are steve. I am busy with something else at the moment but if I figure out how to fix this I will post back here. I can say that it is not debuntu as I don't have that source in my list at all.