synaptic error

Lorin Pino ljpino at grundyec.net
Sat May 20 16:45:34 UTC 2006


I went to bed last night, and left synaptic running.  This morning there 
was an error message that I ignored, since it seemed that my dial-up 
connection had died before synaptic was through. 
Now, however when I start synaptic I get a message:
W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ 
- Release i386 (20051012) breezy/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i386%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ 
- Release i386 (20051012) breezy/restricted Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i386%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com 
breezy/universe Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_universe_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com 
breezy/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com 
breezy/restricted Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com 
breezy/multiverse Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)

Now when I look at /var/lib/apt/lists there is only a folder labeled 
partial which is empty.  I ran apt-get update, and that repopulated the 
/lists folder.  But I still get two of the six original errors: 
W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ 
- Release i386 (20051012) breezy/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i386%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ 
- Release i386 (20051012) breezy/restricted Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i386%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)

What do I do to resolve this?
TIA
~Lorin





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