[Bug 1030027]

[Ubuntu Foundation's Bug Bot]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 346386 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346386

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.  Reviewing your bug report it seems that you are
experiencing bug 346386.  This issue happens when you have tried to
update your package information when you are a network that didn't
return the right files.  This issue can be cleaned up by using the
following commands in a terminal:

1.) sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
2.) sudo apt-get update

Thanks and good luck!

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 346386
   [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header"

** Tags added: bot-comment

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Title:
  update-manager corrupts package information behind paywall

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Error message from update-manager:

  E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages,
  E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

  Background: I ran update-manager while connected to a hotel network
  that redirects any HTTP access to a "pay us for Internet access" page
  until you've agreed to pay.  At the time I ran update-manager, I had
  not yet agreed to pay.

  Now 61 of the 154 files in my /var/lib/apt/lists directory consist of
  the HTML of the "pay us for Internet access" page.

  lsb_release -rd:
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  apt-cache policy update-manager:
  E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
  E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
  E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
  [probably the files the information was in are corrupted]

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