Re: Ubuntu Update Manager crippled...Help !

Dear Ryan - Thanks for your reply - I've copied below my latest replies to the Ubuntu Launchpad - they HAVE gotten back to me in the end, but to no avail as yet- If you read below, you'll see I can't remove the 'list' because this computer doesn't recognise that there is anything *there*! And if I try to re-download the Abiword stable list via the command line, I receive the same message as I originally got - as you'll observe below - (You're probably right about the timer/synchroniser glitch being unrelated - this is probably a BIOS problem and I'll need to go into the BIOS the next time I boot up - there *is* an error message during boot-up about the timer not being connected to the IO-APIC (i think)...) HOWEVER, I think there must be *SOME* glitch with the latest Abiword repository list at Ubuntu, even though it worked for you...The Abiword that I originally downloaded was 2.6.6 and I read in the Abisource responses that there is a slightly newer one, and this is what started off this whole business.... Thanks for your help - any other suggestions...? Yours with best wishes, - mehermuchacho " Thank you for the sugguestions/commands - However, I am actually on an Ubuntu Merry-Go-Round - To wit: When I typed the "Remove" command, to get rid of the empty list, I got the following response from the terminal: ' rm: cannot remove `/etc/apt/source.list.d/abiword-stable.list': No such file or directory ' SO I then tried your next commands and got as far as the 2nd one, when I received *this* response - which is disturbingly familiar, and is the source of the original problem...(I think...): ' sudo apt-get -f install E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list (dist parse) E: The list of sources could not be read. ' I certainly don't know what to do about this - is there a way to repair the Update Manager and Synchroniser by themselves and just work around the Abiword issue? I only wanted to update Abiword because the version of Abiword on this new-ish Ubuntu (LINUX FORMAT magazine) release is 2.6.6 (i think) and there is a slightly more up-to-date that Abiword was recommending... Ho hum...(I was so sure *this* Linux would (finally) *work*!) I am very grateful for your help, one and all - any other suggestions spring to mind? Yours with thanks, - mehermuchacho --- On Sat, 10/17/09, marcobra (Marco Braida) <question86062_at_answers.launchpad.net> wrote: > From: marcobra (Marco Braida) <question86062_at_answers.launchpad.net> > Subject: Re: [Question #86062]: Error in Update Manager > To: mehermuchacho_at_yahoo.com > Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 6:34 PM > Your question #86062 on > update-manager in ubuntu changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/86062 > > Status: Open => Answered > > marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer: > Open a terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories > → Terminal > > Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption > and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will > force the terminal window to stay on top of the other > windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from > this web page into the terminal... > Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal > > and type: > > sudo rm /etc/apt/source.list.d/abiword-stable.list > > give your user password when requested, you don't see > nothing when you > type it, then press enter. > > Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press > enter: > (Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into > the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of > mouse ) > > sudo dpkg --configure -a > sudo apt-get -f install > sudo apt-get --fix-missing install > sudo apt-get clean > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > sudo apt-get clean > sudo apt-get autoremove > > give your user password when requested, you don't see > nothing when you > type it, then press enter. > > Hope this helps > > -- > If this answers your question, please go to the following > page to let us > know that it is solved: > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/86062/+confirm?answer_id=6 > > If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go > to the > following page to enter your feedback: > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/86062 " --- On Sun, 10/18/09, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan_at_ryand.net> wrote: > From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan_at_ryand.net> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu Update Manager crippled...Help ! > To: "mehermuchacho" <mehermuchacho_at_yahoo.com> > Cc: abiword-user_at_abisource.com > Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 12:17 PM > > mehermuchacho wrote: > > Dear Abi Word Folk, > > I used the command lines suggested on the linked > Ubuntu Abiword page in order to make absolutely sure my > Abiword is up to date, but this has resulted in the > following error message, and it has also crashed my Ubuntu > Update Manager, and the synchronisation for date & time > - > > I *HAVE* filed a bug report at Launchpad five or six > days ago but have heard NOTHING..... > > > > Here is the error message that came up at the last > stage of the 4-step Wiki-suggested command line prompts - > (It seems to me from reading this that the Ubuntu list may > not be properly formatted and this may have caused the > glitch - I am using the latest stable release of Ubuntu as > given away in last month's (or August's) edition of Linux > Format magazine in the (not-so) U.K.): > > > > ' Error: Opening the cache(E:Malformed line 1 in > source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list > (dist parse), E:The list of sources could not be read.) ' > > > > Any help would be appreciated - because, as I say, my > update manager is now not working, nor the synchronisation > of date/time... > > > > Thank you in advance, > > - mehermuchacho > > I'm not sure what might be happening with your date/time > sync - that seems unrelated.  The reason that the PPA > exists is because Ubuntu does not keep up with our releases > in a timely fashion, and bug reports filed at Launchpad go > to them, not to me - the person who actually makes the > packages on the PPA. > > Sorry for the difficulties - I re-tested the steps and they > appeart to work here, but I've added a note to the wiki with > these following instructions.  You can fix your problem > by just deleting the file > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list by running > > sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list > > and that should solve the problem.  I'm not sure why > that went wrong - if you don't mind file a bug at > bugzilla.abisource.com and attach a copy of that file before > you delete it - I'd like to see what happened. > > I've updated the instructions with "easy install" links > that should be pretty fail-safe because they make the setup > basically 1-step: download and run the package linked from > the page, and you'll get the updates in your update > manager. > > Let me know if this helps. > > Ryan > > > -- Ryan Pavlik > www.cleardefinition.com > > #282  +  (442) -  [X] > A programmer started to cuss > Because getting to sleep was a fuss > As he lay there in bed > Looping 'round in his head > was: while(!asleep()) sheep++; > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > abiword-user-request_at_abisource.com > with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. >
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