[Bug 633316] Re: Gives up completely if /etc/apt/sources.d/ contains a malformed file

[Robert Roth]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 108601 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108601

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 #108601, 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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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 108601
   Update-manager needs help info when terminating on wrong repositories and generally deal better with incorrect sources.list data

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Title:
  Gives up completely if /etc/apt/sources.d/ contains a malformed file

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1. echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-tweak-stable.list
  2. update-manager

  What happens:
  * An error alert appears saying: "Could not initialize the package information" "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:Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-tweak-stable.list (dist parse)'
  * Update Manager exits without letting you fix the problem.

  What should happen:
  * An error alert appears saying something like: "Some software channel settings are incorrect and will be ignored." "Details: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-tweak-stable.list (dist parse)"
  * Update Manager stays open.

  The equivalent problem in Ubuntu Software Center is bug 633626, and in
  Synaptic is bug 633630.

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