Software Updater failed with message to report the failure

[P. B.]

An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.

Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to include the following error message:
E:can not open /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jammy-security_InRelease - fopen (13: Permission denied), E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-15.15~22.04.1-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CrashDB: ubuntu
CrashReports: 640:1000:124:4673584:2024-02-16 12:47:52.113569736 +0000:2024-02-16 12:47:53.113569736 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_bin_gjs-console.1000.crash
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Feb 16 13:38:59 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-10-11 (127 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230807.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)