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Is Linux Mint's package repository having issues or is the problem on my end? (Solved, I think) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: Last night, I used the "Fix MergeList problems" option in the maintenance tab of software sources and at least for now, it seems to be working. So I probably wont need help with this anymore, hopefully.

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.

It happened again so I'm adding screenshots in case they help. The first is the initial error, then it's the error I get when I try to change the repository and the third is the error I get when I try running the command it suggested:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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.