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Update Manager reports an error

Asked by Ted Pritchard

I use 8.04 . Recently when I ran the Update Manager I got a message saying "An error occurred. The following details are provided".

The details are as follows:

 W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/Release.gpg Could not connect to packages.medibuntu.org:80 (88.191.82.11). - connect (111 Connection refused)

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/free/i18n/Translation-en_AU.bz2 Could not connect to packages.medibuntu.org:80 (88.191.82.11). - connect (111 Connection refused)

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_AU.bz2 Could not connect to packages.medibuntu.org:80 (88.191.82.11). - connect (111 Connection refused)

W: Failed to fetch http://winff.org/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release Unable to find expected entry heron/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

My Update manager says "the package information was last updated 9 days ago." and I know from my other machines that there have been a number of upgrades in the interim.

Presumably somehow my system has become corrupted but how do I go about fixing this?.

Ted

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Ted Pritchard (pritcharded) said : 		#1

Sorry - looks like I've used the wrong forum. I'll re-post on Ubuntu.
Ted

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

lol, this was the right forum (but another one might have been the right forum too)

Good luck and happy hunting :)

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Ted Pritchard (pritcharded) said : 		#3

Thanks Tom. Much appreciated help by the very helpful Launchpad team/contributors (see #57044) has solved my problem.

Regards Ted

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John H (joham5) said : 		#4

After updating to 11-04, Update Manager fails to start. 'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'