Update Manager will not run

[brianclinton]

Binary package hint: update-manager

whenever I try to run the update manager, or any other synaptic package manager, it will freeze up and then report the following error:

E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

...And, that brings us to this point. I am using the most recent release of Ubuntu v9.04

[Steffen Banhardt (steffenbanhardt)]

Can you please open a terminal and execute the following commands and report any errors:

sudo apt-get update

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

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!