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Synaptic becomes unusable if a malformed repository is added

Bug #854212 reported by Daniel U. Thibault on 2011-09-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #633630: Error alert says "Go to the repository dialog" but doesn't let you. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

If one enters a malformed repository into Synaptic's software sources list (say you mistype the path, for example), Syanptic becomes unusable because the first it does when launched is look up the software sources, which generates the error:

E: Malformed line xx in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

The dialog only offers a "Close" button, which shuts Synaptic down.

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Daniel U. Thibault (d-u-thibault) wrote on 2011-09-19:

Running Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bits, 2.6.38-11-generic kernel) in a virtual machine guest, the host being Windows XP Pro.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-02-15:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #733784, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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