On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:18:41PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I had an orange triangle show up where the upstate square usually > shows. I clicked on it and got the following messages. > > Error message: > > Fetch failed: W:Failed to fetch > ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' > > , W:Failed to fetch > ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/contrib/source/Sources > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' > > , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or > old ones used instead. > > > > > I opened synaptic and received the following: > > > E: The value 'stable-updates' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as > such a release is not available in the sources > > E: _cache->open() failed, please report. > > > > > I have no idea what the problem is. It doesn't matter which of the > U.S. sites I pick I get the same messages. I deleted synaptic and > re-installed it from the apt-get command line but it is still there. > Although today I did get a security update that worked just fine. > > Any thoughts on what I should do to fix this?
The errors tell us what the problem is. stable-updates is an invalid value for APT::Default-Release Probably somewhere in our /etc/apt/source.list you have "stable-updates" where you should really have "wheezy-updates". Do us a favour and paste in the content of your /etc/apt/source.list Tony https://tonybaldwin.info -- http://www.myownsite.me web design, development & hosting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140626012126.GA10559@localhost.localdomain