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Normal updates go through just fine, but the release-upgrade to the next LTS does not.

Fortunately, I'm using do-release-upgrade under the script(1) command, so I capture the output. It's too long to put the whole thing here. The short version is that there's a complaint about a GitHub credential, and then the upgrade backs out to the original state.

But there's another problem to mention first: the output suggests web pages for getting help on Ubuntu sites. But the one I looked at suggested using an app called 'xchat', but when I use the apt-get command suggested for installing it, the app does not appear to exist (in my Xubuntu Jammy). So gave up on the Ubuntu direct help, and I'm hoping for a better answer here.

I don't know why the problem occurs, or even what has actually gone wrong, so I could use help both with diagnosis and with a fix.

Here's the complaint with a little context:

Reading state information... Done
Get:1ahttps://cli.github.com/packageststablerInReleaseu[3,917[B]itingafornheaders]aders]]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntuojammyrInReleaseu.com] [Waiting for headers]
Hit https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/debestable.InReleasem] [Waiting for headers]
Err https://cli.github.com/packagesnstableeInReleaseuntu.com]
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23F3D4EA75716059 GitHub CLI <[email protected]>
```Reading state information... Done
Get:1ahttps://cli.github.com/packageststablerInReleaseu[3,917[B]itingafornheaders]aders]]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntuojammyrInReleaseu.com] [Waiting for headers]
Hit https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/debestable.InReleasem] [Waiting for headers]
Err https://cli.github.com/packagesnstableeInReleaseuntu.com]
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23F3D4EA75716059 GitHub CLI <[email protected]>

Then

Third party sources disabled

Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can
re-enable them after the upgrade with the 'software-properties' tool
or your package manager.

To continue please press [ENTER]

Then after some downloading, the failure is announced:

Hit[http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntuonoble-security.InRelease125.190.80)]]
Hit[http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76-dev/stable/ubuntu noble InRelease
Fetchedk0nB]in 0s (0 B/s)

Error during update

A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of
network problem, please check your network connection and retry.


Restoring original system state

I did not see a network problem. My usual test is "ping 8.8.8.8" which pings a Google server, is easy to remember, and seems a decent test of connectivity minus the domain-name servers.

So how do I find out what's really wrong and how to fix it?

With Microsoft Recall being thrown out, I have been asked to roll out a test system for replacing Windows desktops with Linux. I need to know if there is any currently available software that can manage users of the Linux systems, while still using Microsoft Active Directory.

I need to allow network users access to a Linux PC, without having to set them up on the computer first. Have it connect to an existing AD environment and authenticate.

I have a couple of PCs both running 24.04.1 LTS. On one of them when I go to Settings -> System -> Date & Time there is no Automatic Date & Time option. It just shows Date & Time with the ability to manually set the date/time.

When I ran timedatectl on the problem PC I get:

               Local time: Fri 2024-10-04 11:26:30 BST
           Universal time: Fri 2024-10-04 10:26:30 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri 2024-10-04 10:26:30
                Time zone: Europe/London (BST, +0100)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: n/a
          RTC in local TZ: no

And when I run timedatectl set-ntp on I get:

Failed to set ntp: NTP not supported

So I understand why the option is missing in settings (NTP not supported) but I don't understand why it's not supported or what I need to do to fix it.

Can anyone help further?

When Firefox is closed in Ubuntu 24.04, the Dock doesn't have the app with the gray gear icon (the one above the phone icon). It appears when I open Firefox and contains all the windows of Firefox I have open. How can I get it to use the actual Firefox I already have in the dock instead of it being recognized as a different app?

Dock with Firefox open:

Dock with Firefox closed:

I used the mv command (sudo mv 7_00.tts ~/Desktop) in Linux Terminal to move a file to a specific folder. The destination folder didnt exist unfortunatly. Now i have a file (type:binary) that is named like the destination folder and it includes the file that i need (The size of the binary file shows it contains the moved file). I dont have the original file (a video file) anymore so its only in the binary file. Is there a way to get the file back that i moved?

I tried to just rename the file to the original file type, but due to the folder in between its obviously not working. Didnt try anything else due to lack of knowledge.