On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:16:56PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > On 06/25/2014 09:21 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:18:41PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >>I had an orange triangle show up where the upstate square usually > >>shows. I clicked on it and got the following messages. > >> > >>Error message: > >> > >>Fetch failed: W:Failed to fetch > >>ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources > >>Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' > >> > >>, W:Failed to fetch > >>ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/contrib/source/Sources > >>Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' > >> > >>, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or > >>old ones used instead. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>I opened synaptic and received the following: > >> > >> > >>E: The value 'stable-updates' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as > >>such a release is not available in the sources > >> > >>E: _cache->open() failed, please report. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> I have no idea what the problem is. It doesn't matter which of the > >>U.S. sites I pick I get the same messages. I deleted synaptic and > >>re-installed it from the apt-get command line but it is still there. > >>Although today I did get a security update that worked just fine. > >> > >> Any thoughts on what I should do to fix this? > >The errors tell us what the problem is. > >stable-updates is an invalid value for APT::Default-Release > >Probably somewhere in our /etc/apt/source.list you have > >"stable-updates" where you should really have > >"wheezy-updates". > > > >Do us a favour and paste in the content of your /etc/apt/source.list > > > >Tony > >https://tonybaldwin.info > Here is the content of sources.list.save > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib > deb-src http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ wheezy/updates main contrib > > # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile' > # A network mirror was not selected during install. The following entries > # are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate > # for your mirror of choice. > # > # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main non-free > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main non-free > deb http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ wheezy-updates main > deb-src http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ wheezy-updates main > # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib
You replied directly to me, and not the list. I do not see "stable-updates" in here, but this is a back-up file from when the sources.list was last edited. It's still possible that it was edited and somewhere has "stable-updates" in it. Tony -- http://www.myownsite.me web design, development and hosting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140626121319.ga13...@myownsite.me
