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limiv
October 22nd, 2016, 12:46 PM
Hello, yesterday i upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 and it froze during installation so i shut down my laptop after a while and got a purple screen after login which turned blue after a while. I launched a terminal and ran sudo apt-get update/upgrade and had a functional system once again, however the following error showed up when i ran sudo apt-get update:

N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension

And the following error shows up when i run sudo apt-get upgrade:

Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension

Is there any way to fix this as it blocks me from updating/upgrading packages and the ubuntu software store has stopped functioning.

steeldriver
October 22nd, 2016, 01:59 PM
Are you sure that's actually an issue - the .ucf-dist suffix just denotes a configuration backup file

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/ucf.1.html

AFAIK the message is just informational