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:

  • gnuhaut
    41·
    5 months 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.

    • vortexalOP
      2·
      5 months 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.