** Description changed: unable to start either the update manager or the synaptic package mananger after a fresh install of 7.04 and doing the updates offered . on the restart i went to open synaptic manager, i recived this message. could not initialise the package information an unresolvedable problem occurred while initialising the package information please report this bug against the "update-manager" package and include the following error message: "E:Read error - read (5 input/output error), E:the packeage list or status file could not be parsed or opened" + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + I'm getting the same error. I haven't installed or changed the system since the last update I ran which was about 5 days ago (Today being the 20th June 2007). + + I've tried looking at my status file and my sources.list file and there + doesn't seem to be any problems with either file.
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