Update Manager Failure

[Ken G.]

Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Ken G. wrote:
>>     
>>> This morning, for some odd reason, my Update Manager is failing to 
>>> download the needed updates.  Anyone else having this problem? 
>>>
>>> After running Computer Janitor, I am still failing to get updates by 
>>> Update Manager not starting the downloads.  It just keep trying to start 
>>> but to no avail.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>       
>> 	Hi Ken, the Karmic Beta version came out yesterday and today 
>> we are all trying to do the same thing you need to do. I had 
>> trouble with my Jaunty update this morning, but it did finish 
>> after 30 minutes.
>>
>> 	My advice to everyone is to cool it today and maybe tomorrow. 
>> I want to get my Karmic working but it is not going to be done 
>> today. I tried to get the old editor joe. My system worked 30 
>> minutes and knew what to do but it just could not reach 
>> 99.189.88.40 and errored out in 15 minutes.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>     
>
> Decide where on the globe it is currently between say 2am and 5am. Find a
> mirror there. Point apt at it. Enjoy.
>
>
>   
While I don't know about pointing apt, I was able to do my downloading 
of the updates.  Not until I started posting here did I hear of an 
overload on the system for something new.  Being a new Ubuntu user, I 
hardly know what to expect when things goes haywire here.  

Ken