Repository fails to update with 404 Error.

[Paul Lynch]

Similar problem here. I final decided to make the jump and upgrade from 10.4 to 12.4 and I get a load of errors when I use the update manager, ......

W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
, W:Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
, W:Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
, W:Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


Looks like a lot of fundamental packages are unavailable, can some one assist, I don't want to change my sources list without some concrete advice

Thanks in advance.

[jerrrys]

Hi Paul. First off you really should of started your own thread, maybe a mod will come along and split this up. - a mod has!

Anyhow your sources.list are a bit of a mess. Try this in terminal:

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.old

sudo apt-get update

Did that do any good? If not, please post the output of:

cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list

[sffvba[e0rt]

Posts moved to new thread.


404

[sandyd]

Thread split into own thread.

^^ hi not_found, multi-modding eh?

[Paul Lynch]

Jerrys,

thanks for the assistance so far. I followed your direction (I should have figured out the sources list update had I of spent more time searching this forum). The sources update has progressed me to the next hurdle, now when I run the update manager I get the following text and the UM fails...


Could not initialize the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Opening /etc/apt/sources.list - ifstream::ifstream (13: Permission denied), E:The list of sources could not be read.'

When I run cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list in the terminal i get a permission denied, which is puzzling me, I have full admin rights on my machine and never had this issue before.

paul@paul-desktop:~$ cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list
cat: /etc/apt/sources.list: Permission denied
paul@paul-desktop:~$

Appreciate if you can help out as I am a pure nub. Probably wont get a chance to wouk on this till the weekend but if you leave a post I will pick it up ... eventual.

[Paul Lynch]

Bump

[jerrrys]

Wasn't expecting to hear from you till the weekend

Lets try a different approach. Open a terminal and enter:

gksudo nautilus

Then go to your filesystem and navigate to /etc/apt/sources.list

And be careful what you do, sudo can be very unforgiving.

[Paul Lynch]

Ok so I followed your direction and opened the sources.list file which opens the Software Sources window, everything in here looks normal, what should I be looking for?

[Paul Lynch]

One thing of note, all the options in the Software Sources window are unselected in each tab.

[jerrrys]

Ok so I followed your direction and opened the sources.list file which opens the Software Sources window, everything in here looks normal, what should I be looking for?

That "cat -n" command should of done the same thing. Anyhow would you go ahead and post that (copy and paste).