Help. Broken repos/packages

[loki_asguardian]

Hi all,
I am currently running Pop! v20.1
I was trying to run an upgrade and I got these 4 errors:
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pop-shell/pop-shell_1.0.0~1604528379~20.10~9f0976f_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu/pool/main/r/repolib/python3-repolib_1.5.0~1604352588~20.10~729acdf_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu/pool/main/r/repoman/repoman_2.0.0~1604087945~20.10~c49d13b_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
I have tried:
sudo apt clean
sudo apt update -m
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt install -f
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove --purge

To no avail. I also tried running apt-get update or try with --fix-missing as recommended in the last error which also solved nothing.
Any help and suggestions would be highly appreciated,
thanks in advance,
Loki

 

[derpOmattic]

Try running sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade.
I've seen there are some superficial changes made to some System76 icons because they were being buggy. Apparently, apt is being grumpy about it. The full-upgrade command should override those versions.

If that doesn't work, you may have to wait for a while and try again. I know that sounds odd, and it shouldn't be the case, but sometimes Launchpad just has connectivity weirdness.

 

[loki_asguardian]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that gives the same exact errors and so does dist-upgrade

 

[derpOmattic]

What does cat /etc/apt/source.list output?

/etc/apt/sources.list should be empty. It's depricated. You should see this

❯ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/system.sources
X-Repolib-Name: Pop_OS System Sources
Enabled: yes
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Suites: groovy groovy-security groovy-updates groovy-backports
Components: main restricted universe multiverse
X-Repolib-Default-Mirror: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

And this is the new way Pop sources apt (using DEB822 format)

❯ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pop-os-apps.sources
X-Repolib-Name: Pop_OS Apps
Enabled: yes
Types: deb
URIs: http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary
Suites: groovy
Components: main

 

[loki_asguardian]

I think that is all ok. Here is what I got:
loki@loki:~$ cat /etc/apt/source.list
cat: /etc/apt/source.list: No such file or directory
loki@loki:~$ cd /etc/apt/
loki@loki:/etc/apt$ ls
apt.conf.d preferences.d sources.list~ sources.list.save trusted.gpg~
auth.conf.d sources.list sources.list.d trusted.gpg trusted.gpg.d
loki@loki:/etc/apt$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
## This file is deprecated in Pop!_OS.
## See `man deb822` and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/system.sources.
loki@loki:/etc/apt$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list~
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary focal main
# deb-src http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary focal main
loki@loki:/etc/apt$

Did the sources list get duplicated somehow? ie should I rm sources.list~?

 

[loki_asguardian]

Something else I just noticed and not sure if its related. Core 0 was pegged at 100% utilization, but I couldnt find any applications using anywhere close to that amount of power on system monitor. When I ran top I saw two instances of DecodeP+ using up a core a piece. What is that proccess? Anyway I killed them and they have not come back yet. This hasn't fixed my package issues but its strange because nothing comes up on google for DecodeP+

Also I tried moving the two duplicated files in /ect/apt, sources.list~ and trusted.gpg~ into a directory in my home folder and then I tried repairing the package manager again (apt clean, update -m, dpkg --configure -a, apt install -f and dist-upgrade). This didn't work either so I put the files back.

 

[derpOmattic]

loki@loki:/etc/apt$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list~
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary focal main
# deb-src http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary focal main

If you're on 20.10, it should be pointing to Groovy, not focal. What does /ect/apt/sources.list.d/pop-os-apps.sources say?

box2010@pop-os:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat pop-os-apps.sources
X-Repolib-Name: Pop_OS Applications
Enabled: yes
Types: deb
URIs: http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary
Suites: groovy
Components: main

 

[loki_asguardian]

This is what I get:
loki@loki:/etc/apt$ cat sources.list.d/pop-os-apps.sources
X-Repolib-Name: Pop_OS Apps
Enabled: yes
Types: deb
URIs: http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary
Suites: groovy
Components: main

Just as yours...
I thought that sources.list~ with the '~' was just like a backup of the old version sources.list (which is deprecated as you expected it to be) it made during the update. Is that not the case and does sources.list~ do something different to sources.list?

 

[derpOmattic]

That might be your problem, because my 2010 has /etc/apt/sources.list~ with the following;

Many of us are still learning how the new format integrates into the system. From what I can see, you have uncommented sources pointing to focal. All the version numbers of the packages you posted originally are a little off. I can get to those packages on Launchpad, but not via your links. I would try to move that folder, or comment the entries. If that works, delete the file contents.

 

[loki_asguardian]

@derpOmattic Thanks for helping me save my system. Turns out sources.list~ was fubar; when I tried to nano into it and comment stuff per your suggestion, the file was blank. Weird because there was stuff in there yesterday so I am worried about how the file got corrupted. Anyway, seeing that your sources.list and sources.list~ output the same info, I just got rid of the blank file and did cp sources.list sources.list~. Then, I ran through the standard package manager repair commands and apt dist-upgrade was successful.
Cheers!