Comment 21 for bug 349469

a cursory review of the existing commentary here leads me reconsider my speculation over the source of this issue, as manifest on /my/ system. Please indulge my narrative concerning the unusual approach to package-management I whimsically employed with this Lubuntu flavour of Ubuntu "Natty" (11.04?).

Over the past 10 - 14 months or so, I've installed at least a handful of different Linux distributions on as many HDD's (embarking upon something new with each instance of Win XP / .NET incompatibility surfacing, as essentially renders the MS sys in a /broken/ state), from classic GNOME-based Ubuntu, Xubuntu, to OpenSUSE including a full-blown KDE setup, to my current favourite, the LXDE-based "Lubuntu" variant of the 'buntu.

Somewhere along the line, i discovered the Pandora's Box of pkg mgt in the application known as (cover your ears, kids!) /Eveinstaller/. Once I started down that path, I threw caution to the wind and pulled out all the stops just to see if this software could actually perform as well as it presents a veritable plethora of software not likely to be found via default Canonical + Partner repos (e.g. deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty main restricted universe multiverse). If I had to summarize it into one sentence, I'm inclined to phrase the experience as "Eve___ basically wrecked my sources, if not the entire dpkg functionality, such that-- I'd have to have paid much closer attention to the changes to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ (vs those repos i might have added, for example, the Banshee media player, launchpad repos , or other software repos added through the convenient PPA method (e.g. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name ).

The bottom-line, as far as I'm concerned: I realise I've damaged my system's /default/ package manager configuration. The fact that I've experienced this error-- well-- I guess you could say, I'm not surprised; i've been expecting it.

If my anecdote lends insight to anyone; should the reader wish to learn more about the results of the effect of EveInstaller on my system, I'm happy to provide whatever information I can to assist in your own learning; debugging; etc.

I apologise for my verbosity; indeed, i've come to acknowledge the degenerative mentals and, proportionally-- as the community participation history might corroborate-- i hold my tongue by an increasingly exponential factor of instances of contribution (I regret, as my enthusiasm for the spirit of community at Launchpad in general; 'buntu in particular, has not waned in balance).

best regards,
NoviceNotes.Net (the author)