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Otto Mobeal
February 24th, 2010, 02:18 AM
Ubuntu 9.10: I am getting an error on the Update Manager and the Synaptic Package Manager. Both stall. I think it was after uploading "clamtk 4.15". The error is shown as a screen shot in the attachment. But it basically says:

Could not initialize the package information

An Unresolvable problem occurred while initializing 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 package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

This is locking my computer up - can anyone help?
Can I correct clamtk or get rid of it?

Otto Mobeal
March 2nd, 2010, 02:26 AM
HELP!:mad:
This is driving me crazy!
I ran: '/etc/apt/sources.list' and then 'sudo apt-get update' Below are the results:

thekilians@thekilians-laptop:~$ /etc/apt/sources.list
bash: /etc/apt/sources.list: Permission denied
thekilians@thekilians-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for thekilians:
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release [2,540B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.canonical.com karmic Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://archive.canonical.com karmic Release [9,347B]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:7 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages [923B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release [44.1kB]
Get:9 http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Packages [3,404B]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release [44.1kB]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Sources
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages [184kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Sources [54.4kB]
Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Packages [108kB]
Get:16 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Sources [26.3kB]
Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages [6,930B]
Get:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Sources [3,820B]
Get:19 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages [76.4kB]
Get:20 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:21 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Sources [22.7kB]
Get:22 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:23 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Packages [37.1kB]
Get:24 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Sources [6,767B]
Get:25 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Packages [1,666B]
Get:26 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Sources [577B]
Fetched 634kB in 3s (196kB/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Read error - read (5: Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.