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RED Triangle w/Exclamation point inside at top of Monitor

Asked by Charles Dollar

Red Triangle with Exclamation mark inside I Clicked on it a Box poped up, inside it says That "you may have a problem caused by the Network or by a Respository that is no longer avilable". Please update manually by clicking on this Icon and then selecting"Check for Updates" and chech if the listed respositories fail. Then in Bold Type SHOW UPDATES INSTALL ALL UPDATES CHECK FOR UPDATES PREFERENCES So I did what it said to do It took me to another Screen I followed through A Box Poped up UPDATING CASH a Red Line kept going Back & Fourth a few times then stoped and Gave me a message which read Failed to download respitory information there was a small box DETAILS so I clicked it there inside Read E: Problem executing script APT: : Update: : Pre-invoke'if [-x/usr/bin/daptup]; then/usr/bin/daptup-pre;fi;E:Sub-process returned an error code What the heck does this mean & what can be about it? I just don't know or even understand it. Please Help Me!

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This question was originally filed as bug #1042019.

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#2

It appears that the update mechanism may of become confused so lets try to fix it

I am going to give you some commands to try

The first ones just provide information about your system in case the others dont work and the second set attempt to fix the problem

If this fixes you problem then please mark it as solved otherwise copy and paste all the output from the terminal back here.

One of us should be able to help.

Step 1: Open a terminal

If you are using the Gnome interface, open the Terminal console via "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

If you are using the Unity interface, the easiest way to open the Terminal is to use the 'search' function on the dash. Or you can click on the 'More Apps' button, click on the 'See more results' by the installed section, and find it in that list of applications. A third way, available after you click on the 'More Apps' button, is to go to the search bar, and see that the far right end of it says 'All Applications'. You then click on that, and you'll see the full list. Then you can go to Accessories > Terminal after that.

So the methods in Unity are:
Dash > Search for Terminal
Dash > More Apps > 'See More Results' > Terminal
Dash > More Apps > Accessories > Terminal

Step 2: enter the following command

Step 1: Open a terminal

If you are using the Gnome interface, open the Terminal console via "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

If you are using the Unity interface, the easiest way to open the Terminal is to use the 'search' function on the dash. Or you can click on the 'More Apps' button, click on the 'See more results' by the installed section, and find it in that list of applications. A third way, available after you click on the 'More Apps' button, is to go to the search bar, and see that the far right end of it says 'All Applications'. You then click on that, and you'll see the full list. Then you can go to Accessories > Terminal after that.

So the methods in Unity are:
Dash > Search for Terminal
Dash > More Apps > 'See More Results' > Terminal
Dash > More Apps > Accessories > Terminal

Step 2: enter the following command

sudo iwlist scan

lsb_release -a; uname -a

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

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