apt-get update failing

[Ric Moore]

On 11/26/2012 06:36 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:11:04PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>> I'm seeing entries like this in /var/lib/apt-lists:
>> Ubuntu%2012.04%20LTS%20%5fPrecise%20Pangolin%5f%20-%20Release%20amd64%20(20120423)_dists_precise_main_binary-amd64_Packages
>> Ubuntu%2012.04%20LTS%20%5fPrecise%20Pangolin%5f%20-%20Release%20amd64%20(20120423)_dists_precise_main_binary-i386_Packages
>> Ubuntu%2012.04%20LTS%20%5fPrecise%20Pangolin%5f%20-%20Release%20amd64%20(20120423)_dists_precise_Release
>> Ubuntu%2012.04%20LTS%20%5fPrecise%20Pangolin%5f%20-%20Release%20amd64%20(20120423)_dists_precise_Release.gpg
>> Ubuntu%2012.04%20LTS%20%5fPrecise%20Pangolin%5f%20-%20Release%20amd64%20(20120423)_dists_precise_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages
>> Ubuntu%2012.04%20LTS%20%5fPrecise%20Pangolin%5f%20-%20Release%20amd64%20(20120423)_dists_precise_restricted_binary-i386_Packages
>>
>> It seems that update works just fine, and then it stalls a bit about
>> half way through, and produces errors where it seems to reconnect to
>> sites it already checked and then fails. This is maddening.
>
> /var/lib/apt/lists is where apt keeps downloaded package lists.  The
> things to check are
>
>    /etc/apt/sources.list
>    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

In /etc/apt/sources.list.d I found two entries, one a partial for the 
same ppa. I got brave, deleted them both and all is well. Whew! Thanks 
to you and Liam both for pointing that out. Something being lucky counts 
as smarts. :) Ric



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