We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.
Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't
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Thanks for your bugreport.
The following error looks like there might be a filesystem issue with your
machine:
dpkg: failed in buffer_read(fd): copy info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status':
Input/output error
Could you please run a filesystem check and see if that finds any issues?
(sudo touch
I've got a very similar problem and follwed your last advice. But when
trying to follow step 2) gksu tries to open, but closes before I can
even see anything.
Any other advice?
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update-manager crashes on startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472635
You received this bug notification because
I belive that Something is wrong with your sources.Try new sources.
Rename existing sources.list file and create new.
1) Open a Terminal and enter the following commands:
cd /etc/apt
sudo mv sources.list sources.list.bak
2 )Press Alt+F2 and type this command:
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Alright, I tried all that, and nothing's changed.
This is the terminal results:
sa...@satan-laptop:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/apt/lists/partial': File exists
sa...@satan-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: failed in buffer_read(fd): copy
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/'
to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
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