Ultimately, things got so bad that I wiped it and re-installed.&nbsp; It was locking up, fsck would fail, updates wouldn&#39;t install.&nbsp; Something had just gone horribly wrong.&nbsp; I&#39;ve not had much luck with this version of Ubuntu, but as always, thanks for responding to my plea for help.&nbsp; Perhaps install number 38 will be the magic number...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Michael Vogt &lt;<a href="mailto:michael.vogt@ubuntu.com">michael.vogt@ubuntu.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for your bugreport.<br>
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This sounds like the lists file is/was corrupted at some point. Could you please open a terminal and run:<br>
$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/us*<br>
$ sudo apt-get update<br>
and see if that fixes the problem?<br>
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** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)<br>
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Status: New =&gt; Incomplete<br>
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