[Bug 1320081] Re: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

[Ben]

After running the update manager from a terminal the problem is gone, it updated all the software and its working fine.
I truly appreciate your help
Thank you all.
Anyways I attached a picture of the screen I got when I had the problem


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Title:
  The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I use Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

  This is the message I get when initializing the Update Manager:

  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.'

  
  file:///home/jvaldez/Desktop/Screenshot%20from%202014-05-15%2023:54:02.png

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