Software updates fails.

[Erwin Smout]

Software updates fails.

"Failed to apply changes", "could not download packages"

Network connection is not down (browsing works)

I can press "Details" button to get an empty box of explanations.

Kubuntu 16.04 32 bit.

Software updates on a 16.04 64 bit works fine.

[acheron]

In a terminal do

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and report back to us what it says

[Erwin Smout]

In a terminal do

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and report back to us what it says

That seemed to have completed without errors.

Oddest things were new package snap-confine, a warning about "stopping snapd service" and one about "update-rc.d start and stop actions no longer supported".

[acheron]

Nothing really odd there.

[Erwin Smout]

Nothing really odd there.

How can start) and stop) be "no longer supported" ? Are we no longer running services anymore ? Is there any place where I can read up on what's going on here ?

(I have some homegrown stuff that can run as a service and I have an init.d script. Once I migrate that, I'd like to know if I need to do anything about that.)

(Thanks for helping me out BTW.)

[oshunluvr]

update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

These are warnings and normally aren't a problem. What might be the issue is the file that was referenced or caused the warning. Since you didn't post the actual output, we have no way of knowing what file or package caused this.