told to run 'dpkg --reconfigure -a'

Bug #160671 reported by Camil I
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,
I have a Ubuntu 7.04 installation. When I tryed to open Synaptic Package Manager a error message appeared this is:E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report. I traed to correct but unfurtunaly did not worked.
I tryed t6o open Update menager but an anather error start :
Could not initialize the package information

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:Dynamic MMap ran out of room, E:Error occurred while processing adept-manager (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty-proposed_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
Yours sincerely
quitmonty21

Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Did you try executing 'sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a' in a terminal as recommended by Synaptic? Thanks in advance.

Changed in update-manager:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

Changed in update-manager:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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