[RESOLVED] Mintupdate - NOT AUTHORIZED

[GeneBenson]

I'm using LMDE 301303 Mate edition tracking Testing repositories (not Update packs). Whenever Mintupdate tells me there are updates available I hit the "Install Updates" button and up pops a window showing the packages to be installed (as usual), except it also starts with "NOT AUTHORIZED". If I click on the arrow next to this I see the same packages listed as under the "To be Installed" header. If I choose to continue the install goes fine. This happens every time there are updates.

If I cancel the install, fire up Synaptic, and try the install there, I get the same pop-up window, listing the same packages to install, but no "NOT AUTHORIZED" message. If I choose to continue the install goes fine.

If I do an apt-get dist-upgrade the same packages are listed as above. Again, no "NOT AUTHORIZED" message. If I choose to continue the install goes fine.

This leads me to believe that my sources.list is fine and all the needed keys are installed. If it were a problem with a certain repository or key then all 3 methods of updating should complain. It seems to me Mintupdate just doesn't like having other repositories than the standard Mint repositories in sources.list.

Here is an excerpt from the Mintupdate log:

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++ Launching mintUpdate in root mode
++ Starting refresh
++ Auto-refresh timer is going to sleep for 15 minutes, 0 hours and 0 days
++ Found 4 recommended software updates
++ Refresh finished
++ Install requested by user
++ Will install dpkg
++ Will install dpkg-dev
++ Will install dselect
++ Will install libdpkg-perl
++ Ready to launch synaptic
++ Return code:0
++ Install finished

Just to be complete I'm using mintupdate-debian v1.0.6.
Here is my sources.list:

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deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.tuxis.nl/packages/ debian main upstream import incoming
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
deb http://packages.siduction.org/xfcenext unstable main

This is the contents of /usr/share/keyrings/:

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debian-archive-keyring.gpg        debian-multimedia-keyring.gpg       siduction-archive-keyring.gpg
debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg   debian-multimedia-removed-keys.gpg
debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg~  linuxmint-keyring.gpg

Not exactly the end of the world. Just a bit annoying.

[diva4]

Same issue here. Also I am using LMDE, but tracking Testing directly.
Problem is visible since 2nd half of March. Before this date Mint-Update-Debian has worked w/o problems.
Something has changed within Debian Testing in the 2nd half of March, which breaks Mint-Update-Debian.

As workaround I have now switched from Mint-Update-Debian to Mint-Update, which don't show this issue.

Best regards
Diva4

[GeneBenson]

Thanks for the confirmation and the tip diva4. I made the switch. Now just need some updates.

[GeneBenson]

Got some updates today. Mintupdate worked fine. No more "NOT AUTHORIZED" message. Since the bug still exists in mintupdate-debian I am marking this as Resolved instead of Solved.

[zerozero]

the root cause of the problem is certainly other and change from mintupdate-debian (maintained and designed to work with lmde) to mintupdate (never prepared to handle lmde) is not a solution