SOLVED - Initialization error - Muon Package Manager - SOLVED

[Shabakthanai]

Kubuntu Natty 64bit
KDE 4.6.2
Package Manager Muon

The package system could not be initialized, your configuration may be broken.

Details:

Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or directory)


I have the files: status-old and status_backup but not status. While in this condition, I am unable to use a konsole or package manager. How do I correct this? I have tried 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'
without success. Thank You.

After further research, I found the following commands, which resolved the problem: sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
Then: sudo dpkg --configure -a
This seemed to solve the problem. Hope this helps someone with the same error message.

[dibl]

Re: Initialization error - Muon Package Manager

Close muon, and open a terminal. Try these:

sudo touch /var/lib/dpkg/status

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get update

If any of those give errors, post the error here. If they go through without errors, then try your muon package again.

EDIT: It's not obvious why konsole should not open. However, if you write these commands down, and then use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to the tty console, you can enter them there. Then I would use "sudo shutdown now -r" to restart the system.

[Shabakthanai]

Re: SOLVED - Initialization error - Muon Package Manager - SOLVED

Hello my friend,

You were probably posting when I posted a resolution I found with further research. I suspect the both get the same result. Please take a look at what I did and tell me if I did something that will not make the anticipated happy solution. Since I have done what I have done, I am not confident applying your command will help anymore, and do not want to compound my mistake. Thanks for the additional help and best regards to you and yours.

[Guest]

the error still appear on me... any other solutions?

update: problem solve, i use muon update manager, choose main server as update source, update and done