I got the following error:
Error opening the cache: could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (13: permission denied)
I cannot update my system at all. When I hit update I get that all the PPA's where not found
I've tried all the answers that I found including:
- Creating a clone of this file and renaming in case it was corrupted.
- Getting back a backup (.old)
- Fixing permissions (actually I went on and gave 777)
None of the above resolved my problem. Is there a painless way to reinstall Aptitude?
EDIT: Output of stat
File: ‘/var/lib/dpkg/status’
Size: 2720129 Blocks: 5320 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 5389567 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2015-10-19 08:32:02.481638343 +0300
Modify: 2015-10-16 23:22:37.787905868 +0300
Change: 2015-10-16 23:22:37.795905748 +0300
Birth: -
sudo apt-get update
This produces a lot of output which I am not allowed to post here. But the errors go like this:
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main Translation-en
Fetched 174 kB in 8s (21,6 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
And sudo aptitude update follows the same pattern:
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Sources
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main Translation-en
Fetched 112 kB in 8s (14,0 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages: Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages: Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages: Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)/dists/trusty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages: Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/utopic-getdeb/games/binary-i386/Packages: 404 Not Found [IP: 104.28.24.125 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/source/Sources: 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/binary-amd64/Packages: 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/binary-i386/Packages: 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
Besides that, permanand red icon on the top next to my network monitor there is a red icon
What does this red icon on my panel mean?
Edit: sudo lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10
Codename: utopic
stat /var/lib/dpkg/status– A.B. Oct 20 '15 at 18:56sudo stat /var/lib/dpkg/status– George D Oct 20 '15 at 18:58sudo aptitude ...? – A.B. Oct 20 '15 at 18:58aptitude update/aptitude upgrade/whatever command reported the error withsudo. Besides that, can you tryapt-getinstead ofaptitude? Syntax is usually the same. Does that fail too? – Byte Commander Oct 20 '15 at 19:00apt-get update– George D Oct 20 '15 at 19:05sudo? – A.B. Oct 20 '15 at 19:09apt-get *andaptitude *)? – Byte Commander Oct 20 '15 at 19:13Error opening the cache: could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (13: permission denied)error message? – Braiam Oct 20 '15 at 19:49lsb_release -a– A.B. Oct 20 '15 at 19:57dpkg -Dandapt-get check– Braiam Oct 21 '15 at 11:35