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this is not the same case as Failed to fetch update on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

the error is:

    Error during update 

A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of 
network problem, please check your network connection and retry. 

W:Failed to fetch 
http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic/Release Unable to find 
expected entry 'main/binary-amd-64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong 
sources.list entry or malformed file) 
, W:Failed to fetch 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic/Release Unable to find 
expected entry 'main/binary-amd-64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong 
sources.list entry or malformed file) 
, W:Failed to fetch 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic-updates/Release Unable 
to find expected entry 'main/binary-amd-64/Packages' in Release file 
(Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) 
, W:Failed to fetch 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic-backports/Release 
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-amd-64/Packages' in 
Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) 
, W:Failed to fetch 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic-security/Release Unable 
to find expected entry 'main/binary-amd-64/Packages' in Release file 
(Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) 
, W:Failed to fetch 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic-proposed/Release Unable 
to find expected entry 'main/binary-amd-64/Packages' in Release file 
(Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) 
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or 
old ones used instead. 


Restoring original system state

command used is:

sudo do-release-upgrade

[Updated]
on pinging 

ping archive.ubuntu.com

the output was:

64 bytes from obake.canonical.com (91.189.92.200): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=294 ms
64 bytes from obake.canonical.com (91.189.92.200): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=295 ms
64 bytes from obake.canonical.com (91.189.92.200): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=295 ms

....... until i stopped it.

also the system settings->details shows that this is 14.04LTS

output of:

dpkg --print-architecture

is amd64

i opened /etc/apt/sources.list file and there is no mention of utopic. everywhere it is trusty.

[Update - 2]
i checked the above links and there is indeed no entry of main/binary-amd-64/Packages but everywhere it is main/binary-amd64/Packages (notice the hyphen between amd and 64).

i used the command:

grep -r "amd-64" /etc/apt

and got no output.

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helix
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Backup you /etc/apt/sources.list file and comment out all files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder. Than use the following sources.list to upgrade:

deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main universe restricted multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main universe restricted multiverse

deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main universe restricted multiverse
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