Every hour or two, the Update Manager keeps giving me an error message saying that my APT configuration is corrupt and that I should switch to another Linux Mint mirror. It usually goes away when I do a manual refresh but it just keeps coming back. I have also tried switching to a different mirror but I get the same error. It also tells me to run apt-get update but even if I add “sudo” it just gives me an error message saying to run apt-get update.

  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Input/output error is very weird, maybe you got file corruption?

    Does dmesg show any errors with the disk or file system?

    If you run

    sudo strace -e t=read -e status=failed --decode-fds apt-get update

    you might be able to figure which file it is that cannot be read.

    • vortexal@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I’ll try that if the issue happens again because right now it seems to be working. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed it.