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WB0HYQ
July 18th, 2014, 04:51 PM
Every time I try to update my software after the upgrade to 14.04LTS from 12.04LTS, I get this error (and there is nothing wrong with my internet connection):

W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20130213)/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20130213)/dists/precise/restricted/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20130213)/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20130213)/dists/precise/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

What do I do about this? I am not trying to do any updates from a CD-ROM so what's with this error?

Bill
ian-weisser
July 18th, 2014, 06:23 PM
At some point in the past you installed packages from a CD. Perhaps your original install?

Open you Software Sources

software-properties-gtk

Uncheck the CD.
WB0HYQ
July 18th, 2014, 06:53 PM
Interesting. I issued that command and saw that the CD-ROM boxes (there were three of them) were UNchecked. So I checked them and closed the updater. It threw the errors again. Then I re-issued the command and UNchecked the CD-ROM boxes and closed the updater again. It updated and it did NOT throw the error. So, somehow, it seems that the updater thought I had them checked, but they weren't. Cycling them through unchecked/checked/unchecked seemed to work.

Thank you very much, Ian.

Bill