sources.list strange behaviour

[Nick Darby]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 00:13 +0100, Nick Darby wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:22 +0100, SteVe Cook wrote:
> > Nick Darby wrote:
> > > After getting a couple of errors consistently with UK (gb)sources I
> > > decided to change to the Netherlands (nl), and my new source.list is:
> > > 
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > Why does the gb archive still appear? and whats the difference between
> > > apt-get and aptitude?
> > > Thanks in advance for any enlightenment!!
> > > Nick
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Don't know why this works, but.
> > 
> > Delete the contents of sources.list and then run update.
> > restore sources.list and run update.
> > The errors should have disappeared.
> > 
> > 
> > SteVe
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks SteVe,
> The errors disappeared after switching to the Netherlands, I tried your
> suggestion, but I still get the duplication warning. The first
> 'update' (below) was with the sources.list deleted
> 

[snip]

> I tried deleting the file and also having a blank sources.list file but
> with the same result.
> Regards,
> Nick - Still curious...

Hi All,
Having looked again in /etc/apt/ I found the sources.list.d directory
which contained:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-multiverse.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-multiverse.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-universe.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-universe.list.save

When opening gedit to have a look at a file I got this message:
(gedit:8935): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

The file dapper-multiverse.save contained:
# automatically added by gnome-app-install on 2006-08-15 14:53:30.130076
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
universe multiverse

So the questions are:
Whats going on?
Is this gnome specific?
Can or should this be removed?

It's all rather trivial as it does work, but I still get the duplication
warnings.

Regards,
Nick - Curious still...