Check if apt cache is outdated
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jockey (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Martin Pitt | ||
| Lucid |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Bug Description
Fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy LTS)
The user went to enable nvidia driver, it tried to download it but got a 404 error on trying to download the package.
For some reason it was trying to download a version that didn't exist on the servers, I guessed that for some reason the package manager hadn't updated it's repository cache and had to ask the user to close down jockey and do `sudo apt-get update` then reopen jockey and enable the driver.
If I hadn't been able to work this out, the user would have abandoned ubuntu due to not being able to get the graphics resolution higher than 800x600 on his 21" monitor (which is fair enough) !
The bug may not be with jockey but the package manager called which should have realised that the cache was out of date/never updated.
Thanks
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in jockey: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
| importance: | Low → Medium |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-10.04-beta-1 |
| Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
| milestone: | ubuntu-10.04-beta-1 → none |
Not an urgent bug, since the cache is normally auto-updated every day, and updating the cache for each driver install is a pretty expensive operation. But a check for its age might be well possible.