Comment 5 for bug 41290
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| Stephen Martindale (charlie.) wrote Re: sources.list is messy and contains duplicates | #5 |
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If you read the bug report, you will note that mine contained FOUR CD-Rom lines - two commented and two uncommented.
Most of the other lines were duplicated.
I used the "Install a Server" option on the installer CD. In the past, I have installed the beta on another PC, using the same choices - the sources.list file on that PC was fine. The only notable difference between the two installs was that the PC on which sources.list was duplicated inside itself failed to validate the security repositories. (I retried at least once)
I suspect that retrying the validation of the repositories might have caused the script that generates sources.list to run twice, appending the output together.
Alas, the offending sources.list fell afoul of heavy editing on the scale of "sudo rm /etc/apt/