No Software Updates Are Available

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amenex
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Beigetreten: 01/04/2015

Today, with no recent changes to my Trisquel 7 installation, Software Updater hit a brick wall:

First: "Failed to Download Repository Information"
Upon further inquiry: "No Software Updates Are Available"
Then: "Your Software is Up to Date" which is a non sequitur, of course.

Playing with the source settings (US repository vs. main ...) has no effect.

Terminal also complains:

sudo apt-get update
[password]
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos InRelease
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-security InRelease
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-updates InRelease
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.trisquel.info belenos-security InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos/main Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.trisquel.info belenos-security/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-updates/main amd64 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.trisquel.info belenos-security/main i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release
Ign http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.trisquel.info belenos-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.trisquel.info belenos-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.trisquel.info belenos-security/main Translation-en
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/langdalepl/gvfs-mtp/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/langdalepl/gvfs-mtp/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The only non-standard S/W I'm using is Komposer, but that's been on this installation for many months and works fine.

BugRep
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Beigetreten: 04/05/2012

You have this ppa installed ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp.
It is used for mtp, but you should already have support in package gvfs-backends. There is no trusty support on the ppa, so you probably shouldn't be using it anyway. It might have been useful for Trisquel 6. Removing the ppa might fix your problem.

amenex
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Beigetreten: 01/04/2015

BugRep suggested: Removing the ppa might fix your problem.
Presumably that would be: gvfs-mtp

So I tried:
sudo apt-get remove gvfs-mtp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gvfs-mtp

That isn't it.

sudo apt-get remove mtp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mtp

That isn't it either.

sudo apt-get remove gvfs

Not the right approach. That removed bluefish, brasero, gnome-applets, trisquel-session, nautilus-share, gvfs-fuse, gvfs-backends, nautilus-sendto, and nautilus, which of course hosed my GUI, which I've repaired. After all that, and with gvfs gone, Software Updater's refrain is still, "Failed to Download Repository Information."

Looking at this PPA thing a little more: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA

I'll guess this approach:

sudo apt-get remove ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ppa

Nope, still no luck.

However, unchecking the URL's of two "other software" locations in Software Updater did get rid of the "Failed to Download Repository Information" result.

I have no idea how those two URL's got in there, except perhaps while I was attempting to transfer images from my Samsung SCH-U680 cell phone ...

And there's no need to update Kompozer, as it's no longer under development. And Terminal is happy again as well.