Re: Synaptic messed up
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:18:41PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> I had an orange triangle show up where the upstate square usually
> shows. I clicked on it and got the following messages.
>
> Error message:
>
> Fetch failed: W:Failed to fetch ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources
> Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. '
>
> , W:Failed to fetch ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/contrib/source/Sources
> Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. '
>
> , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or
> old ones used instead.
>
>
>
>
> I opened synaptic and received the following:
>
>
> E: The value 'stable-updates' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as
> such a release is not available in the sources
>
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
>
>
>
>
> I have no idea what the problem is. It doesn't matter which of the
> U.S. sites I pick I get the same messages. I deleted synaptic and
> re-installed it from the apt-get command line but it is still there.
> Although today I did get a security update that worked just fine.
>
> Any thoughts on what I should do to fix this?
The errors tell us what the problem is.
stable-updates is an invalid value for APT::Default-Release
Probably somewhere in our /etc/apt/source.list you have
"stable-updates" where you should really have
"wheezy-updates".
Do us a favour and paste in the content of your /etc/apt/source.list
Tony
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