Your filesystem has gone read-only, probably due to a serious error. Run dmesg and look at the error log. It is likely that your hard disk is failing, or that your filesystem somehow became corrupt.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682008 Title: Could not initialize package information To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1682008/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs