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JimyIron

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Registered: 2025-11-26

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Error: Release file for http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/excalibur-

Running into the below error message the last few days when I try to run  sudo apt update.

Anyone seeing this error message?

Hit:1 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease
Get:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur InRelease [48.0 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates InRelease [37.6 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security InRelease [37.9 kB]
Error: Release file for http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/exca … /InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 2min 32s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
Error: Release file for http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/exca … /InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 3h 40min 30s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Error: Release file for http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/excalibur-

No I am not seing this error message.

First guess: make sure that the clock on your PC is set about correct.

JimyIron

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Registered: 2025-11-26

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Re: Error: Release file for http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/excalibur-

I did replace the battery in the notebook and initially the time was off. I booted into the BIOS and changed the time saved changes and booted back into Devuan. For some weird reason, it would not update in Devuan all day yesterday. 

I tried numerous commands :

sudo hwclock --systohc         Command not found..

sudo date -s "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"    Would run the command but time would would not change the time, Ran it again today.. and it worked.

Not sure what was going on but it is working fine now.

Thanks for your reply,

JimyIron