Help with Solution to mintUpdate Error, Please?

[MtnDewManiac]

I thought there was an area for the "Mint-specific" applications/files that Clem (et al) adds as part of fixing/patching/improving Ubuntu into Mint, but I don't see it now.

By the way, why is is that the "Desktops & Window Managers" section does not list its sub-forums (sub-sub-forums? ) on the main page like the "Hardware Support," "Networking," and the two LMDE ones do? Maybe there is such a section, but I don't know where it is because it's not listed under its parental sub-section, either?

But, regardless, my issue. I assume that everyone else saw it, dealt with it, and went on with life, and that I'm just late to the party because I haven't been updating my Mint 17.x partition like I should. But I didn't see any kind of sticky (and that's where I'd expect to find discussion about something that affected every single user of Mint. So... I don't know.

Error message is:
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.removed/ubuntu/dists/ ... /InRelease

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.removed/ubuntu/dists/ ... elease.gpg Unable to connect to archive.removed:http:

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Have run mintUpdate today and each of the three previous days, to make sure it's not a temporary issue. Get the same error every time.

What is the accepted and proper solution to this? Is this evidence of "support has ended" for the 14.04 version of Ubuntu? I just checked, and it's supposed to be supported until April, 2019. Although the chart at the top of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
has me a little confused. It shows 14.04 as being supported, along with 14.04.5 - but it shows 14.04.1 through 14.04.4 as being out of their support window. Does this mean that our base is one of the 14.04.1 - 14.04.4 versions and that (a) we didn't get the 14.04.5 part, and that (b) because of that, our Ubuntu base stuff's support window has expired?

Thanks in advance for the solution and explaining/answering my questions on this one!

Regards,
MDM

[phd21]

HI MtnDewManiac,

Try switching your local mirrors through the Mint Update manager, refresh the cache, and see if the problems go away.

Did you recently try to add any repositories like this one below? This looks like a normal Linux Mint 17.x repo.

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http://archive.removed/ubuntu/dists/trusty-removed/InRelease

Do you have a good Internet connection? Sometimes it could be that they are updating the repository when you are trying to access it and you just have to wait and try again later.

package management - What should I do when the removed repository is down? - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/51692/w ... ry-is-down

Hope this helps ...

[MtnDewManiac]

It is raining right now. Internet access becomes a thing more suitable for (eventually) sending very short textual content during those times. But I'll see what I can figure out when next it's dry here. Will try switching to different ones. I was thinking that I had already done so, but I maintain two separate versions of Mint (17.3 and 18.something), and could easily have confused things.

Today I have a new problem. My laptop's space bar seems to be on its way out. It is a good thing that the space "character" is not one of the 19 or so keys I have to use in order to type in my (lengthy) account password, but it is still annoying.

One of these days, all of my computer issues will be solved by no longer having a working computer. I have a feeling that date is fast approaching.

Thanks for posting! Thanks to anyone/everyone else who ends up doing so. Again, I will try to change the "places" that my updater uses to check for updates when my Internet connectivity has gotten back to at least 1995 speeds.

Regards,
MDM

[gm10]

That's a third party repo and it's down. Switching mirrors won't do a thing. Mirrors are only for official repos.