Updating Cache, bluetooth, wifi, delayed caps off and Spotify

[aPlayer]

Hello LInux MInt COmmunity, unfortunately I have some problems that I do not know how to solve them since I am also a beginner regarding Linux.
I searched on google and stuff and could not make it to work unfortunately.
I installed LInux MInt 64 on my Lenovo Legion Y520-15IKBM multiple times, had some problems, solve some of them, learnt more regarding Linux and new problems also appeared.

As a note, I followed 100% the steps in order to create a bootable USB stick, scanned it both before reinstalling linux and also the scan before install and it gave me 0 errors and the Mint was downloaded via torrent.
THe OS is Linux Mint Cinnamon 64 bit 19.1.

1. [ SOLVED ] Updating Cache is not working at all. I tried various fixes on google but I managed to make non of them to work.

Failed to download repository information
Check your Internet connection.
E:The repository 'cdrom://Linux Mint 19.1 _Tessa_ - Release amd64 20181217 bionic Release' does not have a Release file., W:Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default., W:See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details., W:Target Packages (non-free/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2, W:Target Packages (non-free/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2, W:Target Packages (non-free/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2, W:Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2, W:Target DEP-11 (non-free/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2, W:Target DEP-11 (non-free/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2, W:Target CNF (non-free/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2, W:Target CNF (non-free/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2

Before, I think it worked before doing something. I made an update via Update Manager but after that it worked no more. WHat I've done is on this page :
https://www.pcsteps.com/2628-install-st ... untu-play/
and I executed this command : sudo apt-get update --fix-missing && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y where it says Firstly, we do a full system update with:

I also installed DIscord and Spotify with no problems after I did those things.

2. [SOLVED]Bluetooth, can't enable it at all, not before ( previous clean mint reinstalls and not even now ). WHen I open BLuetooth it just says "Bluetooth is disabled by hardware switch" and the enable button is grayed out, can't click it or anything.

3. [SOLVED]Wifi is not showing up at all. My home wifi is not comming up and also my samsung 8+'s hot spot is not showing up. WHen enabled in Network it just says unavailable.19.1

4. When I am making a letter bigger, I use the Caps Lock button to activate the capital letters and switch it off after I typed a capital letter but sometimes the caps lock is delayed, examples can be seen in this post, upper. Well, it might not appear as a problem to you and all but when dealing with passwords, it is a problem. How can I fix it?

5. SPotify, it randomly loses sound, even when idle or even while being the only thing running. I've downloaded SPotify from the official website and ran the installer. Any help?

6. I start to notice that MInt is kinda running slow on my laptop, what can I do in order to improve the situation? There might be some problems with the drivers or something like that?

Info about my laptop

System: Host: lenovo-legion Kernel: 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80YY v: Lenovo Y520-15IKBM serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo Y520-15IKBM serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: NO DPK serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO
v: 5XCN09WW date: 06/21/2017
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.7 Wh condition: 42.5/45.0 Wh (94%) volts: 12.8/11.5
model: SMP L16M3P24 serial: <filter> status: Unknown
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-7300HQ bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake
rev: 9 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19968
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1189 2: 1195 3: 1183 4: 1211
Graphics: Device-1: Intel vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:591b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia
v: 390.77 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c20
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a171
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-43-generic
Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo
driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 168c:003e
IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-3: Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-11:4 chip ID: 0cf3:e300
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 17.06 GiB (0.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM007-1R8174 size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 17.06 GiB (0.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 44 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 19.1 _Tessa_ - Release amd64 20181217]/ bionic contrib main non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com tessa main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free
2: deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,i386] http: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
Info: Processes: 216 Uptime: 47m Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 2.34 GiB (30.5%) Init: systemd v: 237
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 alt: 7 Client: Unknown python3.6 client inxi: 3.0.27

[JeremyB]

We can fix the repo issues with

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sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list 
echo "deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

The following should fix wifi/bluetooth

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sudo apt update && sudo apt install git dkms build-essential
git clone https://github.com/jeremyb31/ideapad-laptop.git
sudo dkms add ./ideapad-laptop
sudo dkms install ideapad-laptop/1.0

Reboot

[aPlayer]

We can fix the repo issues with

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sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list 
echo "deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

The following should fix wifi/bluetooth

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sudo apt update && sudo apt install git dkms build-essential
git clone https://github.com/jeremyb31/ideapad-laptop.git
sudo dkms add ./ideapad-laptop
sudo dkms install ideapad-laptop/1.0

Reboot

THe WIFI and BLuetooth worked, were set up, tested and it works. Can you also explain in a basic and simple way the code? I am curious.
Reharding the repo issues, I tried to run the first command " sudo rm/etc/apt/sources.list " and it is presenting me with the following error :

rm: cannot remove '/etc/apt/sources.list': No such file or directory

Can you also tell me the logic and the idea behind this code? Maybe I can fix the code to make it work.

[JeremyB]

The first 2 lines of code should have removed the one unneeded file and fixed the duplicate entries in another file. The code that fixed wifi and bluetooth is 4.15 kernel source code patched with updates from newer kernels. Lenovo changed something in BIOS a few years ago that makes wireless blocked in Linux for some Lenovo models, the solution is to add the model name to a quirks list in the source code for ideapad-laptop and compile

[aPlayer]

The first 2 lines of code should have removed the one unneeded file and fixed the duplicate entries in another file. The code that fixed wifi and bluetooth is 4.15 kernel source code patched with updates from newer kernels. Lenovo changed something in BIOS a few years ago that makes wireless blocked in Linux for some Lenovo models, the solution is to add the model name to a quirks list in the source code for ideapad-laptop and compile

Ok, and do you have an idea in how to fix the duplicated things?

[JeremyB]

Post results from terminal for

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inxi -r

[aPlayer]

Post results from terminal for

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inxi -r

Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tessa main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
2: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam

[philotux]

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
2: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

The duplicated entries can be removed:
Software Sources: Maintanance: Remove duplicate entries (or some such)

[aPlayer]

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
2: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

The duplicated entries can be removed:
Software Sources: Maintanance: Remove duplicate entries (or some such)

Ok, I went into driver manager and it managed to download the caches after I went into maintanance and cleared the duplicated entries.
Now I entered in updates panel and clicked "refresh" and this error appeared :

An error occurred
THe following details are provided:
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target DEP-11 (non-free/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target DEP-11 (non-free/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target CNF (non-free/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target CNF (non-free/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2

Shall I ignore this or what? When trying to do the updates it also tells me this :

An error occurred
THe following details are provided:
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target DEP-11 (non-free/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target DEP-11 (non-free/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target CNF (non-free/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2
W: Target CNF (non-free/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list:2

I also uninstalled SPotify and same thing keeps popping when I try to refresh on updates and also install them.
I uninstalled Spotify by right click on it and uninstall and went again to clear duplicated stuff.

[philotux]

I went into driver manager

There was no mention of driver manager. You would need to open Software Sources from the application menu.

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
2: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

The duplicated entries can be removed:
Software Sources: Maintanance: Remove duplicate entries (or some such)

If you want to do it manually:

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xed admin:///etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list 

when prompted, type in your password. In the file which opens, delete the second line. Save and close the file.
Now run:

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sudo apt update

If you are not going to install Spotify again, you can remove it's repository:

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sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list 

And then run:

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sudo apt update

[aPlayer]

It works now, everything regarding cache.
Still, got this problem where my apps like libra office, firefox and others are randomly freezing.
Can you also help me with that? Any ideas?

[philotux]

I am afraid I don't know how. Others will chime in and help you out with that.

cheers,
philotux

[aPlayer]

THank you ma friend so far.

[philotux]

THank you ma friend so far.

You are welcome! Glad to have been able to help a bit.
Good luck!

[philotux]

By the way, it is a good idea to create new threads with titles more adapted to specific issues to attract attention. As it is now it is too broad.

[aPlayer]

THank you ma friend so far.

You are welcome! Glad to have been able to help a bit.
Good luck!

Ma friend, I have a question : how do you know to use commands in Linux? Where did you learnt and all?