Wrong update notification mail

sbocquet · Sep 9th 2025

Hi !

My NAS is currently running OMV v5 and it works fine.

But as Debian 10 is out of support, I was forced to modify the debian repositories in order to stop errors during update checks.

So I changed to the archives repo as I've have done with all other Debian 10 server I have.

Code

root@home-server:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
# deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
# deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
deb https://archive.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
deb-src https://archive.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

# deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://archive.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src https://archive.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free

The fact is that I still receive once a day a notification mail with incorrect repo settings !

Code

CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Tue Sep  9 20:32:02 CEST 2025
CRON-APT SLEEP: 2029, Tue Sep  9 21:05:51 CEST 2025
CRON-APT ACTION: 0-update
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get  update -o quiet=2
E: The repository 'https://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates Release' no longer has a Release file.
E: The repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian buster Release' no longer has a Release file.
E: The repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates Release' no longer has a Release file.

Here is a repo update, with no trace of the debian repo I've replaced :

Code

root@home-server:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt update
Get:1 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  InRelease
Ign:1 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  InRelease
Get:2 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Release
Ign:2 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Release
Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Packages
Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives  Translation-en
Get:6 https://openmediavault.github.io/packages usul InRelease [12.7 kB]
Hit:7 https://archive.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:8 https://archive.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:9 https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public InRelease
Get:10 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster InRelease [53.9 kB]
Hit:11 https://archive.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Hit:12 https://archive.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:13 https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt d-apt InRelease
Get:14 https://openmediavault-plugin-developers.github.io/packages/debian usul InRelease [3,928 B]
Hit:15 https://packages.openmediavault.org/public usul InRelease
Hit:16 https://mkvtoolnix.download/debian buster InRelease
Get:17 https://openmediavault-plugin-developers.github.io/packages/debian usul-extras InRelease [3,918 B]
Fetched 74.5 kB in 1s (58.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

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Maybe someone can explain why this mail is logging some old repos that aren't used ?

Thanks a lot

chente · Sep 9th 2025

I suggest you upgrade to OMV7.

sbocquet · Sep 10th 2025

Hi,

Thanks for the advice, but at the moment, I don't want to upgrade my NAS.

It works fine, and I have a bunch of services tunned and running on it. Plus, I'm not a huge fan of docker containers, at least, for a Storage NAS.

So, any other idea?

gderf · Sep 10th 2025

If available, disable System | Notification | Events | Update management

sbocquet · Sep 10th 2025

Hi,

Thanks... but I still want to keep my updates alerts !

Guys, seriously...
It's like my car has a broken window, and one guy suggests I change my car and the other guy suggests I ignore the fact that the window is broken!

The goal is to fix the problem, not to ignore it

gderf · Sep 10th 2025

And what updates are you expecting to get for end of life software?

sbocquet · Sep 10th 2025

Plex, QBittorrent, DMD compiler, Onedrive for Linux, etc... are still living for Debian 10
End of Debian 10 doesn't mean end of all the software I have on it.

I will upgrade for sure in the upcoming months or year, but at the moment, that's not the plan as I have no time to do it, and this NAS is running smoothly for what I want to do.

chente · Sep 10th 2025

Quote from sbocquet

It's like my car has a broken window, and one guy suggests I change my car and the other guy suggests I ignore the fact that the window is broken!

That car is so old that the garages either don't know how to fix it anymore, or don't want to spend the time fixing it.

Buying a new car in this case is free, so...

sbocquet · Sep 10th 2025

OK... Thanks for your help.
It's not totally free as I have to spend a good bunch of time to restart/upgrade all my conf. As I said, I will but it's not the right moment for me to do it.

So the conclusion is nobody can help because my OMV version is too old even if apt and postfix are used in Debian 13 and OMV 7?
I'm searching for ideas here but maybe it's the wrong place.

chente · Sep 11th 2025

Quote from sbocquet

So the conclusion is nobody can help because my OMV version is too old even if apt and postfix are used in Debian 13 and OMV 7?

I'm afraid so. Your time is just as valuable as the time the OMV developers spend.

The developers are willing to join the forum and help resolve issues with the stable version of OMV. But, as you can see, they're not willing to dedicate their time to supporting versions that are already dead.

I think that's fair. If you're not willing to dedicate the time to updating your system, you can't expect others to dedicate it to solving the problems it causes in yours.

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