Ubuntu
update-manager package

Could not initialize the package information

Bug #125102 reported by IrishGirlJen
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Bug Description

The following information was copied from the error that occurred:

A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:The package linux-headers-2.6.17-11 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.'

This error occurred after I upgraded to 7.04 from 6.06.

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IrishGirlJen (irishgirljen) wrote :

I am running a power pc

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

It's hard to know what caused that without more information. The output immediately before that should say which package is causing this. Please provide the entire output.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

This usually means that something is wrong with your dpkg database, please run:
$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq linux-headers-2.6.17-11

that should fix the problem. Can you please also attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this bugreport? This will make it easier for us to diagnose the problem.

Thanks,
 Michael

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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