Unable to find expected entry web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubufox (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
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William Grant |
Bug Description
I am using Xubuntu 7.10. I don't know anything about "web" repository but it is included in my /etc/apt/
sudo apt-get update gives:
Get:1 http://
Get:2 http://
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Fetched 8B in 2s (3B/s)
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Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote : | #1 |
Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote : | #2 |
Yannis Tsop (ogiannhs) wrote : | #3 |
The same happens to me! I manually removed "web" repo and now there are no errors.
Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote : | #4 |
There is no web component, any idea how this got into your sources.list?
Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote : | #5 |
Same problem in Xubuntu 8.04
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://
Ign http://
Ign http://
Ign http://
Ign http://
Ign http://
Hit http://
Ign http://
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Hit http://
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Ign http://
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W: Failed to fetch http://
W: Failed to fetch http://
W: Failed to fetch http://
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote : | #6 |
I marked this as security vulnerability since it prevents me from getting updates unless I remove 'web' entries in sources.list.
William Grant (wgrant) wrote : | #7 |
After a lengthy discussion in #ubuntu-bugs this evening, I tracked this down to ubufox. It was only triggered it one case - installing totem-mozilla with ubufox (the Ubuntu Firefox plugin finder). As Xubuntu is the only derivative that doesn't have either both or neither of ubufox and totem-mozilla, it should only have been commonly triggered on Xubuntu systems.
I have notified asac and submitted a patch. This can no longer affect new systems. Thanks must go to kahrytan for bringing the issue up!
As for existing affected systems, we unfortunately cannot do much. Resolution is as simple as removing 'web' from /etc/apt/
Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote : | #8 |
Good that the bug has been located. I think it is good to fix it in update, since not everybody has installed totem-mozilla with ubufox, but somebody may install it later.
I wonder why this is marked as duplicate of Bug #228264, even if this was reported earlier.
I removed the occurences of "web" in sources.list and now "sudo apt-get update" works without failure. Am I missing something?