just a warning?

[Erik Christiansen]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:08:03PM -0400, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> This feels like a manifestation of bug # 30215:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/30215
> 
> 
> Note that you don't need to have proxy to trip over this bug -- just a
> failure to connect.  Even a box that is on 24/7 with a full-time
> connection can have this problem if there's a transient failure
> elsewhere in the Internet.
> 
> I used to get this on my laptop pretty regularly before I upgraded to
> dapper, because I'd boot it while traveling, away from an Internet
> connection, but haven't seen it since installing dapper.

On my laptop, I've had similar misbehaviour for the last few weeks:

root at dvalin:~# apt-cache search grep | more
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://au.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/au.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://au.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/au.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://au.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/au.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_universe_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
kate - advanced text editor for KDE
grep - GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
grepmap - Parse module map files produced by depmod
root at dvalin:~# 

Hmmm ..., has the the list been changed?:

erik at dvalin:~$ ll /etc/apt/sources.list
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1992 2006-05-04 18:34 /etc/apt/sources.list

Yep. Did I save the original?:

erik at dvalin:~$ ls !$:h/*source*
ls /etc/apt/*source*
/etc/apt/sources.list  /etc/apt/sources.list.orig

That's handy. What's changed?

erik at dvalin:~$ diff -w !*
diff -w /etc/apt/*source*
1c1
< #deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted
---
> deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted
erik at dvalin:~$ 

The same warnings were emitted after a reboot, following confirmation
that the network connection was present. (Another suspected cause
mentioned in this thread.)

With a little luck, the bug will be fixed in breezy one day.

My suspicion is that it arrived when I upgraded breezy, or parts
thereof, in a moment of weakness.

Erik