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Patryk
Asked: 2013-11-07 17:32:46 +0800 CST

apt-get update : Unable to change to (unreachable)// - chdir (2: No such file or directory)

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Today I have tried to update the package lists and I have encountered strange error 

$ sudo apt-get update
...
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy-proposed/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy-proposed/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy-proposed/universe Translation-en_US
Fetched 496 kB in 38s (13.0 kB/s)
E: Unable to change to (unreachable)// - chdir (2: No such file or directory)

What should I change now ? Something in /etc/apt/sources.list ?

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4 Answers

  1. I got this error message every time I ran sudo apt-get update with an encrypted home directory, while I was in my home directory.

    If I cd'd to / first, the error went away.

    (Ubuntu Server 13.10)

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  2. Best Answer

    Reinstalling libapt-pkg helped .

    sudo apt-get install --reinstall libapt-pkg4.12
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  3. I had this happen today. It was because my current directory was mounted with sshfs. I don't know if it would occur with any FUSE file system or just sshfs, but the answer was to just get out of that directory. That is:

    cd
sudo apt-get update
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  4. Had the same issue when my current dir was a cluster fs. https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_Cluster_File_System_(pmxcfs) change your current directory to a folder with a different file system. e.g. cd /

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