The part about apt is that is all https/http urls so you can open it up and
see wth is going on. Both those urls end up with 404s

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 1:03 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Those 2 repositories are from get-deb and are probably not significant
> to the system.  My biggest concern is that they are pointing at an
> Ubuntu 14.04 repository....  Is your machine running Ubuntu 14.04?  If
> so, that version stopped being supported in 2019, unless you pay Ubuntu
> a subscription for extended support.  In any case that's probably not
> your main problem.
>
> I don't like using any of the GUIs for big updates because they haven't
> been very good at handing odd problems and end up breaking your system
> when they don't know what to do, especially on the older versions of the
> distributions.
>
> I'd do the upgrade from the command line and just do:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade
>
> The update command will likely give you the same error about the getdeb
> packages.  You could comment those repositories out if the error is
> bugging you.
> Upgrading from the command line will hopefully give you a nice human
> readable error that you will be able to handle and get the install to
> finish.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 3/31/22 20:11, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > Thanks Brian ... Followed your suggestion (quoted below)
> > and finally got the  update to work (sort of) ... but with
> > these error messages (and a bunch of other problems):
> >
> > The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted
> > because of network problems. If available an older version of the
> > failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored.
> > Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the
> > preferences is correct.
> >
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/trusty-getdeb/apps/binary-amd64/Packages
> >  gnutls_handshake() failed: Handshake failed
> > Failed to fetch
> >
> http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/trusty-getdeb/apps/binary-i386/Packages
> >  gnutls_handshake() failed: Handshake failed
> > Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
> > ones used instead.
> >
> > The application launcher just "blinks" and does not open,
> > so I cannot access anything there.
> >
> > So, I tried this:  t420: sudo synaptic ... [sudo] password for joe: ...
> > and got these error messages:
> >
> > ** (synaptic:2749): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus
> > address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
> > Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading
> > configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. please move it to
> > /home/joe/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf manually
> >
> > (synaptic:2749): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion
> > 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> >
> > And ... now I have no sound and I am seeing a variety of
> > weird problems, including the size of the display changes
> > (fonts increasing in size) arbitrarily and spuriously in
> > some applications. So, I have to CTRL - repeatedly to
> > reduce the contents image size.
> >
> >
> > -------------------
> > 2203-26 Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >> It says you have a duplicate entry for your google chrome
> >> repository in your sources.list file, which could be in just
> >> /etc/apt/sources.list  or in a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
> >> or any combination of the two. I'd check it with:
> >> cd /etc/apt; grep -r chrome sources.list*
> >> and see which files it come back as having a match and
> >> then just delete one of the lines in the file, or the whole
> >> file if it's only has one repository line in it.
> >
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