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Re: Synaptic messed up



On Thursday 26 June 2014 21:59:30 Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> On 06/26/2014 08:13 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:16:56PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> >> On 06/25/2014 09:21 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> >>> 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/s
> >>>>ource/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/contri
> >>>>b/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
> >>> https://tonybaldwin.info
> >>
> >> Here is the content of sources.list.save
> >>
> >>
> >> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib
> >> deb-src http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ wheezy/updates main contrib
> >>
> >> # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
> >> # A network mirror was not selected during install.  The following
> >> entries # are provided as examples, but you should amend them as
> >> appropriate # for your mirror of choice.
> >> #
> >> # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib
> >> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main
> >> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main non-free
> >> deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main non-free
> >> deb http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ wheezy-updates main
> >> deb-src http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ wheezy-updates main
> >> # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib
> >
> > You replied directly to me, and not the list.
> > I do not see "stable-updates" in here, but this is a back-up file from
> > when the sources.list was last edited. It's still possible that it was
> > edited and somewhere has "stable-updates" in it.
> >
> > Tony
>
> How do I find out what is suppose to be there or how do I fix it?  I
> have basic knowledge of the command line so if someone would tell me how
> to fix it I will attempt to do so.

First, send us the output of:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

so that we can see that what we think is the problem is indeed the problem.

Lisi


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