Probably solved.
I have fixed the permissions and 2 updates have gone through without crashing
out.
I looks like the fix has worked, thank you.
It remains a mystery how the permissions apparently spontaneously changed!
I will confirm again after some more substantial updates have gone through.
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Public bug reported:
Software Updater used to work perfectly but now it fails with the message in
the summary.
When Software Updater informs me there are updates I now use 'Ubuntu Software'
to do them as it completes without failing.
Can I remove Samba and all its components and reinstall it?
I
Also broken in 1:20170314.1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.
The old version independent way of fixing this in the 10-flash script
still works by the way.
flashversion=`strings $flashso 2> /dev/null | grep LNX | cut -d ' ' -f
2 | sed -e "s/,/./g"`
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --ppapi-flash-p
Public bug reported:
an unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
information
E:Malformed line 55 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse)'
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: bot-comment
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I found a workaround that worked for me at the moment at least.
Disable acpi by editing /etc/default/grub and add "acpi=off pci=noacpi" to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. I'll report if the errors come back.
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Two years later and still nobody assigned?
I did not have this problem with 10.04 installed around feb 2011. I never
upgraded the kernel and it ran fine. Yesterday i decided to go for 12.04 and
the problem appeared. Tried going back to 10.04, but the only version I get my
hands on now, 10.04.4,
