Hi, same here. Steps to reproduce apt-get udpate apt-get upgrade do-release-upgrade Here are the outputs requested by @brian-murray https:// Links shortened because they got replaced by safe links (anti malware at our site) Thanks @gene-weber for the workaround :-) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libfwupdplugin1 linux-headers-5.4.0-126 linux-headers-5.4.0-126-generic linux-image-5.4.0-126-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-126-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-126-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. Try Ubuntu Pro beta with a free personal subscription on up to 5 machines. Learn more at https://... The following packages will be upgraded: libksba8 sosreport 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 standard LTS security update Need to get 400 kB of archives. After this operation, 65.5 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 https://... focal-security/main amd64 libksba8 amd64 1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1 [95.1 kB] Get:2 https://... focal-updates/main amd64 sosreport amd64 4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1 [305 kB] Fetched 400 kB in 0s (981 kB/s) (Reading database ... 146400 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libksba8_1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libksba8:amd64 (1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1) over (1.3.5-2) ... Preparing to unpack .../sosreport_4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking sosreport (4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1) over (4.3-1ubuntu0.20.04.2) ... Setting up libksba8:amd64 (1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1) ... Setting up sosreport (4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) ... ls -lat /var/lib/dpkg total 1752 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 07:46 updates drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 19 07:46 . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 710525 Oct 19 07:46 status -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 19 07:46 lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 710658 Oct 19 07:46 status-old drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 139264 Oct 19 07:46 info drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 06:20 triggers drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 06:09 alternatives drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 4096 May 9 15:10 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 12 2021 dpkg -> /var/lib/dpkg -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 9 2021 lock-frontend -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268 Mar 16 2021 diversions -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340 Mar 16 2021 diversions-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 Feb 1 2021 statoverride -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181566 Feb 1 2021 available -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Feb 1 2021 cmethopt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 23 2020 parts unlink /var/lib/dpkg/dpkg ls -lat /var/lib/dpkg total 1752 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 19 07:49 . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 07:46 updates -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 710525 Oct 19 07:46 status -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 19 07:46 lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 710658 Oct 19 07:46 status-old drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 139264 Oct 19 07:46 info drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 06:20 triggers drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 06:09 alternatives drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 4096 May 9 15:10 .. -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 9 2021 lock-frontend -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268 Mar 16 2021 diversions -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340 Mar 16 2021 diversions-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 Feb 1 2021 statoverride -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181566 Feb 1 2021 available -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Feb 1 2021 cmethopt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 23 2020 parts