update manager bug-Error opening cache. list of sources cannot be read

[Ashwin]

The error given is:

Could not initialize the package information

A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Type '--23:25:19--' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.'

i am using::
Ubuntu 8.04
                - the Hardy Heron - released in April 2008

its not opening synaptic also, if i open synaptics and enter password it again gives above error.

it happened when i was trying to install adobe acrobat reader ., using medibuntu repositories..

it doesnt allow me to install anything , and also displays red icon in right corner of panel displaying error.
cant even recover it from recovery mode gives same error.

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please delete line 1 of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list and try again.
If it works, please close the bug (or say so and I will close it for you)
If it doesn't work, please attach -don't paste- your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list file to this bug.

Thanks in advance

[Ashwin (ashwinraut1988)]

hi, i tried deleting 1st line , now it gives error in 2nd line '=>hardy.list'
and the same thing continues.

I am attaching my file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list.

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Replace the entire /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list file with the one I have attached. Do not keep the old one - it is not valid.

Of course, the one I have attached is for Hardy. You may need to substitute 'hardy' with 'intrepid' if you are running 8.10.

Please let me know if that works.

[Ashwin (ashwinraut1988)]

Thank you very much..

 it works, my pacakage manager stopped giving error.
and its working fine now.

after i installed all repositories i got a error at last :

W: GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2EBC26B60C5A2783

but it didnt seem to create any problem, everything is working fine as usual.

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Closing this bug based on your last comment that the problem is resolved.