I just encountered this problem and it was the result of a malformed packagekit transaction database :
roberto-pc:~# apt-get install --reinstall libapt-pkg5.0 apt apt-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2,558 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libapt-pkg5.0 amd64 1.4.7 [916 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 apt amd64 1.4.7 [1,231 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 apt-utils amd64 1.4.7 [410 kB] Fetched 2,558 kB in 0s (49.9 MB/s) (Reading database ... 277322 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libapt-pkg5.0_1.4.7_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.4.7) over (1.4.7) ... Setting up libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.4.7) ... (Reading database ... 277322 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../archives/apt_1.4.7_amd64.deb ... Unpacking apt (1.4.7) over (1.4.7) ... Setting up apt (1.4.7) ... (Reading database ... 277322 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../apt-utils_1.4.7_amd64.deb ... Unpacking apt-utils (1.4.7) over (1.4.7) ... Setting up apt-utils (1.4.7) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Error: Timeout was reached roberto-pc:~# apt-get update Ign:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release Error: Timeout was reached Reading package lists... Done roberto-pc:~# /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd --verbose 17:55:56 PackageKit Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1) 17:55:56 PackageKit daemon shutdown set to 0 seconds 17:55:56 PackageKit clearing download cache at /var/cache/PackageKit/downloads 17:55:56 PackageKit setting config file watch on /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf 17:55:56 PackageKit Trying to load : aptcc 17:55:56 PackageKit dlopening '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_aptcc.so' 17:55:57 PackageKit trying to open database '/var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db' 17:55:57 PackageKit creating table to repair: Failed to execute statement 'SELECT * FROM transactions LIMIT 1': database disk image is malformed Failed to load the backend: Failed to execute statement 'CREATE TABLE transactions (transaction_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,timespec TEXT,duration INTEGER,succeeded INTEGER DEFAULT 0,role TEXT,data TEXT,description TEXT,uid INTEGER DEFAULT 0,cmdline TEXT);': table transactions already existsroberto-pc:~# roberto-pc:~# rm -f /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db roberto-pc:~# apt-get update Ign:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release Reading package lists... Done roberto-pc:~# apt-get update I got the idea to check from here: https://fanf42.blogspot.com/2014/08/upgrading-to-ubuntu-1404-error-timeout.html This could really use a better/more robust error message. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
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