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Misleading error message on incorrect component in sources.list

Bug #187994 reported by Arnest
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Invalid
Undecided
Celso Providelo
apt (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Main window message:

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

Within window

Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release Unable to find expected entry commercial/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

My network is ok. I'am able to download everything and surf the internet. So I don not understand the problem.

Tags: lp-soyuz
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can not reproduce the problem here anymore, it may be transient. But I have got reports about similar problems yesterday, I reassign to the server infrastrucutre (soyuz). update-manager is just the messenger here.

Changed in update-manager:
status: New → Invalid
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

On further investigation it turned out that the error here is that the "commercial" repository got renamed in gutsy (from "commercial" to "partner"). The error message is really bad, sorry for this.

Cheers,
 Michael

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Invalid
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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

For the record, the 'commercial-compatibility" trees are only offered to pre-gutsy systems. Although, this problem seems to be caused by using "gutsy commercial" instead of "gutsy partner" (misleading component name). So, not a bug in soyuz.

Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → cprov
Changed in update-manager:
status: Invalid → New
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Dima Ryazanov (dima-gmail) wrote : Re: Misleading error message on incorrect component in sources.list (was: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release Unable to find expected entry commercial/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?))

I got a similar misleading error message:

The package download failed.
Please check your network connectivity.

When the problem was:

Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main kdebase-workspace-dbg 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa6
  404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main kdebase-workspace-libs4+5 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa6
  404 Not Found

This is certainly not a "network connectivity" problem.

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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Is this still an issue for you? Which Ubuntu version do you use? Thank you for telling us!

summary: - Misleading error message on incorrect component in sources.list (was:
- Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release
- Unable to find expected entry commercial/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-
- index file (malformed Release file?))
+ Misleading error message on incorrect component in sources.list
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for apt (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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