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:Opening /etc/apt/sources
Trying to run update manager and I get this message: 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:Opening /etc/apt/
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Please post full Terminal output from step 6 here:
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Stuck at step 5 of the trouble shooting procedure: I can't find an option to set scrolling to unlimited. I'm on 12.04 precise lxle lubuntu and my terminal is a ROXTerm terminal, after clicking edit there is no profile listed.
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In roxterm, click on Preferences::Edit current profile::Scrolling. Make sure that "Limit scrollback" is NOT enabled.
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What is the output of:
ls -la /etc/apt/
Thanks
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All I have is a place to set the value. No options for any kind of limit settings. Value is currently set at 1000 lines.
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@ actionparsnip, output is: kim@kim-E-6000:~$ ls -la /etc/apt/
-rw------- 1 root root 282 Jan 11 15:46 /etc/apt/
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OK, set the value to "100000" and proceed to step 6.
Post output here:
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ ubuntu-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
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SystemError: E:Opening /etc/apt/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ cat /etc/dpkg/
cat: /etc/dpkg/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ dpkg --print-
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo grep -R proxy /etc/apt/*
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ grep proxy /etc/environment
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ echo $http_proxy
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ echo $ftp_proxy
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ grep proxy /etc/bash.bashrc
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ grep proxy ~/.bashrc
grep: /home/kim/.bashrc: No such file or directory
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
cat: /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo fuser -vvv /var/lib/dpkg/lock
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo fuser -vvv /var/cache/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ uname -a
Linux kim-E-6000 3.2.0-120-generic #163-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 20 15:13:12 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo rm /var/cache/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo mv /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo mv /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo rm /var/cache/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get clean
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo dpkg --clear-avail
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
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Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
Reading package lists... Done
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0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --fix-missing update -o APT::Cache-
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Fetched 17.4 MB in 3min 17s (88.0 kB/s)
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec bash -c 'echo -e "\n$1\n"; cat -n "$1"' _ '{}' \;
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo dpkg --audit
kim@kim-E-6000:~$
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#9 |
The file permissions on your /etc/apt/
The other output aboves seems OK.
Try this Terminal command to correct the permissions:
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/
Afterwards, the output of
ls -la /etc/apt/
should look like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4327 Jan 9 19:50 /etc/apt/
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/
[sudo] password for kim:
kim@kim-E-6000:~$ ls -la /etc/apt/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 282 Jan 11 15:46 /etc/apt/
kim@kim-E-6000:~$
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OK now run:
sudo apt-get update
What is the output, please?
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$ sudo apt-get update
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kim@kim-E-6000:~$
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Its working now guys, thanks so very much. WOW what a bid fix for what seemed to be a small problem, THANKS AGAIN!!!
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Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.
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Huge Thank You to: Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) & actionparsnip (andrew-
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You're welcome. The only real fix here was sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/
But I wanted you to go through the whole troubleshooting procedure to see if any additional configuration issues would appear. In this case, they did not. But they often do....
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Understand that, better to see the whole picture. Again thanks and have a blessed year as you bless us with your knowledge. We would be in trouble without peeps like you to help us.