Ubuntu
update-manager package

9.10 upgrade fails in setting new software channels for ppc

Bug #404694 reported by Jeremy Sequoia on 2009-07-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #886273: Poor handling of broken sources.list files. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

1) Run "update-manager -d"
2) Click "Upgrade" next to "9.10 is available"
3) Click "Upgrade to confirm"
4) Watch as the upgrade process fails in step 2: "Setting new software channels"

The following appears in a dialog box about the failure:

W:Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/karmic/Release Unable to find expected entry partner/binary-powerpc/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
, E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote on 2009-07-26:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in update-manager.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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ubuntu → update-manager (Ubuntu)

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Jeremy Sequoia (jeremyhu) wrote on 2009-08-15:

The problem goes away when I remove third party repos from the list.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-07-19:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #108601, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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