Can't Update Ubuntu 9.04 (RESOLVED)

[John Graddy]

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 09:12 +1300, Tim Frost wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:51 -0600, John Graddy wrote:
> > I have a solid red circle with a horizontal white line at the top of the
> > screen (notification panel?) in Ubuntu 9.04.  I'm not sure when it first
> > appeared.  When I put the mouse cursor over the circle, I get the pop-up
> > message "A problem occurred when checking for the updates."  If I click
> > the circle, I get a VERY BRIEF flash on the screen which looks like the
> > notification that comes up when updates are available.
> > 
> 
> [synaptic/update manager results trimmed]
> 
> > If I do sudo apt-get install update, my password is requested and I get
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Segmentation faulty tree... 0% 
> 
> 
> What is the output of
> 	sudo apt-get update
> 
> (that is the correct command to update the package lists - your command
> as posted is trying to install a package named update)
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
the output from sudo apt-get update follows.  After doing the apt-get
update, the problem cleared up.

Thanks,
John

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Reading package lists... Done