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  1. Bug #187994
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 187994

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Dima Ryazanov (dima-gmail) wrote : Re: Misleading error message on incorrect component in sources.list (was: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release Unable to find expected entry commercial/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?))

I got a similar misleading error message:

The package download failed.
Please check your network connectivity.

When the problem was:

Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main kdebase-workspace-dbg 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa6
  404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main kdebase-workspace-libs4+5 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa6
  404 Not Found

This is certainly not a "network connectivity" problem.