Comment 0 for bug 120612

unable to start either the update manager or the synaptic package mananger
  after a fresh install of 7.04 and doing the updates offered . on the restart i went to open synaptic manager, i recived this message.

could not initialise the package information
an unresolvedable problem occurred while initialising the package information
please report this bug against the "update-manager" package and include the following error message:
"E:Read error - read (5 input/output error), E:the packeage list or status file could not be parsed or opened"