Update manager complains about network issue or repo down for no reason

[Jerome]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I have that triangle roadsign on my systray that says : "The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network problems or by a repository that is no longer available." etc.

However, my network connexion goes fine and I have cleaned up my sources.list to ensure I'm only using up and running repos :

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted universe multiverse

## Medibuntu
# deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ jaunty free non-free #Medibuntu - Ubuntu 9.04 "jaunty jackalope"
# deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ jaunty free non-free #Medibuntu (source) - Ubuntu 9.04 "jaunty jackalope"

## Claws-mail
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/claws-mail/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

What do you see when you run (in a termianl):
$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic
$ sudo apt-get update
$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic

[Jerome (jerome-jolimont)]

Apparently, the succes stamp is correctly updated.

[jerome@bouzin ~]$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-02 16:21 update-stamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-10-05 20:08 update-success-stamp
[jerome@bouzin ~]$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for jerome:
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Translation-fr
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Translation-fr
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Translation-fr
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Translation-fr
Réception de : 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Translation-fr
Réception de : 2 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/main Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/restricted Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/universe Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/multiverse Translation-fr
Réception de : 3 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Translation-fr
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Translation-fr
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release
Réception de : 4 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release [57,9kB]
Réception de : 5 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed Release [49,6kB]
Réception de : 6 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release [57,9kB]
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
Réception de : 7 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages [190kB]
Réception de : 8 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Packages [2589B]
Réception de : 9 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages [74,2kB]
Réception de : 10 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Packages [8128B]
Réception de : 11 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/main Packages [55,3kB]
Réception de : 12 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/restricted Packages [966B]
Réception de : 13 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/universe Packages [9461B]
Réception de : 14 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/multiverse Packages [14B]
Réception de : 15 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages [113kB]
Réception de : 16 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages [2589B]
Réception de : 17 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Packages [53,1kB]
Réception de : 18 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Pack...

[Jerome (jerome-jolimont)]

This has not happened to me for quite a while, now. I assume it has been fixed. Or perhaps it disappeared with the dist-update (and is still present on former version).