Updater Errors

[huehueteot]

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 on an AMD 64 dual cpu chip and over the last two weeks every time that I check for updates I get the following errors:

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/restricted/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/universe/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-backports/multiverse/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]

Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

What does this mean and how do I fix it? :p

[taurus]

If you are running intrepid, how come you have feisty repos in your /etc/apt/sources.list?

Open a terminal and post your /etc/apt/sources.list.


cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[huehueteot]

Here is the cat of my sources.list:

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted multiverse universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

## cn -added for google software
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

as requested. As to why I have feisty sources listed I don't know. I have migrated through three updates of the system and had a variety of problems with goofed up updates. Most of these were corrected when I went to the next version but this one just started about two weeks ago. Don't know what caused it.

Cheers and thanks for the help, Sam

[taurus]

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list


gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and remove these two lines from it.



deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Save it and close down gedit window. Then run


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[huehueteot]

OK, that seems to have fixed the problem! Thanks!!!!:p