Synaptic error messages when hitting certain archives (WAS: Interesting apt-get problem)

[Bob D.]

Previous thread here:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-September/002197.html

My error does appear to be related to:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469

After clicking on reload in Synaptic, the following warning message
appears after Synaptic hits the repositories:

Could not download all repository indexes

The repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted
because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed
index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your
network connection and the correct writing of the repository address in
the preferences.

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/warty/main/binary-
i386/Packages.gz: Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/warty/main/source/Sources.gz:
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

When Synaptic starts to build the dependency tree again after the reload
the following error messages appear in windows:

Message 1:
============================
Warning

Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_warty_main_binary-
i386_Packages)
============================

Click OK to clear the message and the second one appears:

Message 2:
============================
Warning

Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_warty_restricted_binary-i386_Packages)
=============================

Here's my sources.list entries. I did edit to access universe:

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 4.10 _Warty Warthog_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-1
(20040915)]/ unstable main restricted


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the
network
## and be able to use more than 12000 unsupported packages from the
universe archive.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty-security main restricted
==============================

NOTE: I'm a Linux rookie, so please keep this in mind regarding the
following. :)

While retrieving the sources.list information through gedit (sudo) I
noticed that I have a sources.list and a sources.list~ in /etc/apt. I
had previously edited the sources.list file in gedit launched from the
terminal after a sudo command. Not sure why or where the second file
came from. I expected gedit to overwrite the old file when I saved it
but it appears some type of backup was made (?). I think it is as I see
in gedit's preferences it is set to make a backup copy before saving.
This tilde file still has the universe archives commented out. Is this
file with the tilde after it the source of the error messages? My ISP is
Comcast.net, cable modem, through a wired Netgear router if that's any
help.

Thanks!

Bob