[Solved] Update errors with 17.3

[AndyMH]

Have an old Thinkpad T410 which has been gathering dust for over a year. It's running 17.3 rosa. Have fired it up (prior to giving to daughter-in-law) and thought I'd better do an update - there's a lot - 105! But update manager is giving me errors while trying to download packages. Below is a sample:

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W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/perl/perl_5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/perl/libperl5.18_5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3_all.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc-bin_2.19-0ubuntu6.13_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6-i386_2.19-0ubuntu6.13_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]

Basically all 404 - not found errors. Update manager was working fine at the point the laptop was retired. What's broken?

[AndyMH]

Well, it fixed itself. Switched it on this morning, it was only showing one update -mintupdatemanager. Updated that and then all the other updates appeared. Did them and all fine. No idea why it behaved the way it did.