** Description changed: Binary package hint: update-manager Running Update Manager results in a dialog box saying: Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. Please report this buck against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message: 'E: Opening /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list - ifstream::ifstream (13: Permission denied), E:The list of sources could not be read.' - - Yesterday I installed 9.10. Today the bug seemed to show up after I ran the command: + Yesterday I installed 9.10. Today the bug seemed to show up after I ran + the command: sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow- unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update which I got from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
** Description changed: Binary package hint: update-manager - Running Update Manager results in a dialog box saying: + Running Update Manager results in a dialog box saying: Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. Please report this buck against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message: 'E: Opening /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list - ifstream::ifstream (13: Permission denied), E:The list of sources could not be read.' Yesterday I installed 9.10. Today the bug seemed to show up after I ran the command: sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow- unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update which I got from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu + + Edit: In /etc/apt/sources.list.d there were two files, medibuntu.list + and medibuntu.list.save whose permissions were -rw-------. I did sudo + chmod 644 to make them -rw-r--r--. Now Update Manager seems to run OK. + It no longer gives me the above error message. -- Could not initialiize the package information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502014 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
