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Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:

Hey, man, Linux Mint 22.1 Xia is available, but when I tried to upgrade to it, I get message that the upgrading failed, check your internet connection.
My internet connection is fine, I'm on my home wi fi. I didn't find on internet solution to this yet so I'm asking here.

Thanks

Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:
I followed, I even try to plug my enthernet cable, but can't upgrade. I leave a comment on the website from the link.

Novian Cahyadi wrote:



Nah, that's not the appropriate channel for troubleshooting. I recommend asking the folks on the Linux Mint forums. Don't forget to also provide your hardware details.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/

[Edited at 2025-01-18 13:43 GMT]

Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:
I'll try later, now hosting time out on that website.

Novian Cahyadi wrote:



That's strange.

Well alternatively, you can try the Linux Mint subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/

Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:
These Linux IT guys are very selective when it comes to comments, all I can read are commendable comments.
I even write comment on that blog with the instructions, but I don't see my comment yet.

I wonder why host is down on linuxmintforums, maybe they don't want to hear complaints.

Novian Cahyadi wrote:



Spam filtering. Anyone who's ever run a website would know that spammers love to abuse the comment section. They're just doing the sensible thing to do.

And as I said, the blog isn't the appropriate channel for troubleshooting. Even if they approved your post, you're less likely going to get any help by asking there.



I can access the Linux Mint forums just fine. That's very odd indeed.

Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:
I can also access the linux mint forums now, but yesterday I wasn't able. I posted it, and let's see what will happen.

Novian Cahyadi wrote:



In my humble experience, websites tend to perform their routine maintenance over the weekend. Maybe that was what happened?

Anyway, hope your issue gets resolved. 👍

Novian Cahyadi wrote:


In my humble experience, websites tend to perform their routine maintenance over the weekend. Maybe that was what happened?

Novian Cahyadi wrote:



Turned out it was due to AI scrapping their website and flooding the bandwidth. This was effectively a DDoS attack.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=418609
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2578205#p2578205

Now I'm starting to wonder if AI was also the cause of the problems we've been experiencing on ProZ.com. 🤔

[Edited at 2025-01-19 13:28 GMT]

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