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Update Manager is working OK again after not working for several days. This update blockage occurred with Linux Mint and Debian based distros but NOT with vanilla Ubuntu distros. I have no explanation for why this happened. Thanks for everyone's help.

I did some more testing. Here are the results using LIVE DVDs: Mint 19 - Was able to run updates and upgraded a program in Synaptic Mint 20 - Was able to run updates and upgraded a program in Synaptic Mint 18.1 and 18.2 - Was NOT able to run updates or install from Synaptic. Getting the same "Failed...

I'm also getting this error when trying to reload sources list cache: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Could not open file descriptor -1 E: Unable to lock the list directory The cache reload is failing on: http://packages.linuxmint.com sa...

Tried in Update Manager, Synaptic and the Terminal. Same errors even though I tried several different mirrors. Same problem on one of my other laptops. Downloads get "stuck". NEVER had this problem before with LM 18. Something wierd going on with LM repositories in the past few days.

After doing some research on the web I was able to successfully post all the updates. There seems to be an ongoing APT cache problem from time to time with Linux Mint.

I tried several different mirrors without success. Same result. I haven't run any updates in 2-3 weeks and nothing was changed on the system.

I am using LM 18 MATE. Update Manager has failed to fetch security updates in the past few days. Errors received: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/InRelease Failed to fetch http://archive.ubu...

Using Mint 18 MATE. Is there any way to change the login screen when coming out of suspend? Such as the background of the screen? It is now black (Ugh!). Thanks.

Has anyone been able to get Xiphos running properly on LMDE 4 or Debian 10 Buster? The drop down menus don't work the way they should, making the application useless. For me it has only worked well on Ubuntu based distros. Thanks.

I would like to know how to move the network, update manager and sound icons from the bottom panel to the top panel. It used to be easy in LM 17/18/19 but I don't see a way to do this in LM 20.04. I tried moving the indicator applet witht the 3 dots : but it just moved the 3 dots and not the icons. ...

The new METAR server at Aviation Weather has been activated as of 6/23/2020 P.M.

Update: 6/24 4:00pm EDT - METAR is back offline again.

UPDATE: 6/28 - Aviation Weather seems to be stable with their new RHEL release. Will continue to monitor.

I looked up the GitHub open issues on this. It apprently affects many distros other than Mint. Does anyone have an idea when this problem is going to be solved and a fix made available?

Still not working here in Florida, USA

It's 6/1/20 and the weather icon is offline again as of this morning.

Running LM 18 MATE. As of this morning 5/28/20 the weather icon in the panel has stopped working. Is anyone else having this problem with LM 18 or 19? Thanks. UPDATE: The icon started working again on its own on 6/23. It was obviously a problem with the weather Metar provider moving to a new RHEL se...

I decided after fooling with this over the past week to just chuck it and install Mint 19 MATE. I spent far more time trying to figure this out than it took me to install LM 19, programs and all my data files. Bootup time is now 50 seconds. I'll just have to wait and see if LMDE 4 (Buster) offers im...

rng-tools5 made no difference in the boot time. Still 80+ seconds. The latest kernel in the repository is 4.9.0-11. I may just have to abandon LMDE3 and return to the main edition with LM 19. Thanks.

This is the full dmesg log. Thanks.

Nuts2u - Your solution made no difference. Still 80+ seconds for bootup. gm10 - Here's dmesg file from a cold boot. If I'm reading this right it looks like some type of delays at 18.024975 and 59.253047: [ 1.552739] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linu...

Boot time is still 80+ seconds. Here is LSBLK: rick@rick-production:~$ lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda2 ├─sda5 swap a6d2d0a5-2531-41f2-8515-97d7d10d6fa8 [SWAP] └─sda6 ext4 f0fa4aae-f0e6-4d29-bb97-04be98188605 / sr0