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software-properties package

Crash after adding repositories - ill-formed sources.list

Bug #157291 reported by viktor
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I upgraded from feisty to gutsy (amd64) last week. For this I had unchecked repositories added under feisty like the ones for automatix, skype and miro.
Tonight I wanted to update my repositories (under Synaptic) and tried to activate them back:
 - actually I uninstalled Automatix2 then erased its gutsy repository
 - activated the skype repository (never worked under feisty - yup, it's a 32-bits app)
 - activated the miro repository
On refresh Synaptic displayed this error msg, asking to file a bug report:

'E:Ligne 38 mal formée dans la liste des sources /etc/apt/sources.list (analyse de distribution), E:La liste des sources ne peut être lue.'

which translates "Line 38 ill-formed in ...sources.list / The sources list can't be read"

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viktor (lfraisse) wrote :
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viktor (lfraisse) wrote :

I forgot to say that after changing the repositories, thru the refresh updates were mentionned as available (update-notifier).
Subsequently launching update-mng lead to the crash described.

Mending sources.list thru sudo gedit fixes the issue (I switched back to the status quo ante minus the Automatix repo).

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viktor (lfraisse) wrote :

...just to precise that the update-notifier erroneously mentioned new updates after the repo refresh and before the update-mng crash.
Then the update notification was still displayed, clicking on it opened the update-mng with the error message mentioned in my first message. Then crash.
And so on.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Could you please attach /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log?

Thanks,
 Michael

Changed in update-manager:
status: New → Incomplete
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viktor (lfraisse) wrote :

Here we go!

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Monika Eggers (monikakrug) wrote :

This is line 38 that is malformed:
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu gutsy
Indeed there seems to be something missing, there should be something like "main", "non-free" or whatever at the end (or several). Did you edit that line manually?

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Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in software-properties:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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