Comment 1 for bug 283529

I recreated the missing dir/file by running:
mkdir /var/lib/apt
mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
mkdir /var/lib/dpkg
touch /var/lib/apt/lists/lists
mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
touch /var/lib/dpkg/status
mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/updates
touch /var/lib/dpkg/available

It seems to be working now. I still don't show any errors with /dev/sda. Hope its not the ext3 kernel problem that lost my /var/lib directories.

Kernel: 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
mtab: /dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
crypttab: home /dev/sda3 none luks,tries=5
crypttab: cryptoswap /dev/sda5 /dev/urandom swap
dmesg "strange message": CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec