sources.list strange behaviour

[SteVe Cook]

Nick Darby wrote:

>> 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
> 
This directory is empty on my systems

> 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.
Welcome to the club :-)
This issue has been raised before with no real answers.  It appears to 
be rather random, but oesn't seem to effct anything.

> 
> 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?
You could try moving the files to another directory and seeing if 
apt-get/aptitude update protests.

SteVe