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update-manager package

updates failed.

Bug #238966 reported by Paul Priest

This bug report was converted into a question: question #36286: updates failed. .

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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Tried but got this response

dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege

This is a new instalation of 8.04 from CD and the first attempt at an update download.

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Daedalus (osd-daedalus) wrote :

already tried 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' ?

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Mike (bild85) wrote :

Please restart Firefox. Too bad the error message is so ugly!

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Dereck Wonnacott (dereck) wrote :

Please attach the output of sudo dpkg --configure -a

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Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) wrote :

Thanks for reporting, but this is not a real bug, so I'm converting this to question...

Changed in update-manager:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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