[Bug 946680]

[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 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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