[Bug 946680]
Ubuntu Foundation's Bug Bot
946680 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Mar 5 00:12:59 UTC 2012
*** 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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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946680
Title:
update-manager fails on random ongoing update
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Red circular icon with horizontal white bar across middle in header
bar
Show updates and initially update manager displayed dialog with the
following:
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
include the following error message:
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric-
security_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file
could not be parsed or opened.'
11.10
attempting to find the version of update-manager yeilded the following:
kiosso at tigger:~$ apt-cache policy update-manager
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric-security_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
kiosso at tigger:~$
Expected: update manager would ask for permission to update files and
then do so
Actual: described above
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