E:Malformed line 61 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist)
Bug #771729 reported by
Timothy Untan Luat
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #886273: Poor handling of broken sources.list files.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
The list of sources could not be read.
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Timothy Untan Luat (timothyuntan) |
| visibility: | private → public |
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| bfoo (bfoo) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | update-manager → update-manager (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | Timothy Untan Luat (timothyuntan) → nobody |
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I got the same error when I was connected to a network that requires authentication on MAC basis to get through the proxy. It seems apt isn't validating anything or at least isn't refusing the lists and keeping them anyway. The package lists were corrupted by the response of the network proxy. And for lists downloaded prevously, the update-manager does not check the descriptions it is retrieving from the proxy.
Workaround in my case: turned off the automatic check for updates.
This is really annoying for people often using public network access or a company network.