kubuntu hardy beta upgrade malformed release file error

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add all the files contained in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to your bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

See also #213890,

I get the same problem when trying to update to 8.04 RC

Have attached the contents of my /var/log/dist-upgrade/ though looks I can only attach one file per comment

There's a file /var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log too but it's zero length.

I'm also getting this. It started the 8.04 final was released. I've tried using mirror sources but it didn't help. Here's what I'm getting with my mirrors:

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

W: Failed to fetch http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/Release Unable to find expected entry web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

W: Failed to fetch http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/Release Unable to find expected entry web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

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

@mike:
2008-04-19 16:19:36,601 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release Unable to find expected entry main/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

"main" component for archive.canonical.com, just "partner" please fix the sources.list file and try again

@crvampsh:
There is no "web" component in the ubuntu archive, please remove that from your sources.list file and the upgrade should work.

@Michael Vogt

Thanks! That did the trick. just deleted the word "web" out of three lines ending with "web"

Any idea how that would get there? I didn't do any manual changes to my sources.list.

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