[Bug 1682008] Re: Could not initialize package information

[Phillip Susi]

Your filesystem has gone read-only, probably due to a serious error.
Run dmesg and look at the error log.  It is likely that your hard disk
is failing, or that your filesystem somehow became corrupt.


** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Could not initialize package information

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Attempting to update my 17.04 install gave the following 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:Couldn't create temporary file to work with /var/lib/apt/lists us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_zesty_InRelease - mkstemp (30:Read-only file system), E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

  thomas at thomas-P552LJ:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (development branch)
  Release:	17.04
  thomas at thomas-P552LJ:~$ apt-cache policy update-manager
  E: Couldn't create temporary file to work with /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_zesty_InRelease - mkstemp (30: Read-only file system)
  E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
  thomas at thomas-P552LJ:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep update-manager
  [sudo] password for thomas: 
  ii  python3-update-manager                          1:17.04.3                                   all          python 3.x module for update-manager
  ii  update-manager                                  1:17.04.3                                   all          GNOME application that manages apt updates
  ii  update-manager-core                             1:17.04.3                                   all          manage release upgrades

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