Re: Synaptic messed up
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/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
> >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
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