[Bug 807497] Re: Update Manager not starting

[akash]

akash at akash-laptop:~/Desktop$ apport-collect 807497
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 368, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 555, in run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 455, in run_update_report
    apport.packaging.get_version(p)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 71, in get_version
    pkg = self._apt_pkg(package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 64, in _apt_pkg
    return self._cache()[package]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 52, in _cache
    self._apt_cache = apt.Cache(apt.progress.base.OpProgress())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 86, in __init__
    self.open(progress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 123, in open
    self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
SystemError: E:Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or directory), E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

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Title:
  Update Manager not starting

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
  information.

  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
  include the following error message:

  'E:Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or
  directory), E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or
  opened.'

  Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

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