Error could not initialize the package information

[Security Hunter]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

Ibex 8.10

An 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 't' is not known on line 43 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.'

Also the gedit would not allow changing the permission

[Michael W. Koehler (mkoehle1)]

Sounds to me like an error in your sources.list file. Could you upload your file /etc/apt/sources.list here? Thanks.

[Security Hunter (sechunter)]

Here you go any help would great thanks!

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.10 _Intrepid Ibex_ - Release i386 (20081029.5)]/
intrepid main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted
#Added by software-properties
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid restricted main
multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main
restricted universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates
restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main
restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner

t is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security restricted
main multiverse universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security
restricted main multiverse universe

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Michael W. Koehler <email address hidden> wrote:

> Sounds to me like an error in your sources.list file. Could you upload
> your file /etc/apt/sources.list here? Thanks.
>
> --
> Error could not initialize the package information
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370934
> You received this bug notification because yo...

[Michael W. Koehler (mkoehle1)]

Just replace your /etc/apt/sources.list file with the attached file - should fix everything. For some reason, you seemed to have lost part of a commented out line leaving "t is" and apt didn't know how to handle that.

[Security Hunter (sechunter)]

Thanks Michael

I should have noticed that but all is well now!

[Dougie Richardson (dougierichardson)]

This isn't fix released because we haven't changed anything in the current trunk, it's also not a documentation issue so I'm setting it to invalid - I'm glad your problem is fixed.

[Bill S. Zamora Jr. (billszamora)]

could not initialize the package information

[Bill S. Zamora Jr. (billszamora)]

'E:Type '/ppa/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-wine-ppa-maverick.list'

[Jim Campbell (jwcampbell)]

Per bug instructions, marking against the update-manager package, but I don't even think this is a bug. It was just an error with with user's sources.list file.