Ultimately, things got so bad that I wiped it and re-installed. It was locking up, fsck would fail, updates wouldn't install. Something had just gone horribly wrong. I've not had much luck with this version of Ubuntu, but as always, thanks for responding to my plea for help. Perhaps install number 38 will be the magic number...
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your bugreport. > > This sounds like the lists file is/was corrupted at some point. Could you > please open a terminal and run: > $ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/us* > $ sudo apt-get update > and see if that fixes the problem? > > ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Could not initialize the package information > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225830 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Frank Hieber Mac OS X...because making UNIX user-friendly was easier than fixing Windows. ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14261033/unnamed -- Could not initialize the package information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225830 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
