upgrade tool issue

Michael W. Holdeman lists at ptfd.org
Sat Oct 20 15:56:14 UTC 2007


On Saturday 20 October 2007 06:13:07 am Thilo Six wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote the following on 20.10.2007 01:39
>
> > I keep getting an error out on the update tool when it is in the
> > prepareing the upgrade phase.
> >
> > Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release
> > Unable to find expected entry  commercial/binary-i386/Packages in
> > Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
> >
> > Is this just due to the ip traffic load? I waited last night till today
> > and tried several times just in case it was a load problem on the
> > servers, but it is still doing it today all day.
> >
> > Mike
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710
> <---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Commercial/partner repository
>
>     * The "commercial" repository on archive.canonical.com has been renamed
> to "partner". If you upgrade directly from an earlier release to Ubuntu
> 7.10 using the documented upgrade procedure, then this will be handled
> automatically. However, if you upgraded via the beta and/or manually, you
> will need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list by hand. The correct syntax is:
>
> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ gutsy partner
> --------------------------------------------------------------------->
>
> as others has allready suggested, deactivate pre-upgrading and reactivate
> post-upgrade.
>
> HTH
> --
> Thilo
>
> key: 0x4A411E09

Thanks guys, that was it. 
Now everytime I scan for updates however adept always comes up with the 
upgrade arrows like there is an upgrade out there?

Mike




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