[Bug 1063105] Re: Update Manager Fails

[sampo555]

*** 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:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update

Thanks and good luck!

** 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"

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Title:
  Update Manager Fails

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

Bug description:
  When starting up Update Manager (using Ubuntu 12.04) it fails to initialize.  A popup window generates the following message "Could not initialize the package information. 
  An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising 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/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened."

  When I try "ubuntu-bug /usr/bin/update-manager" it tries to collect
  information, but then it popup "Invalid problem report.   Could not
  determine the package or source package name."   and in the xterm it
  says "apport-gtk:4053): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_main_quit: assertion
  `main_loops != NULL' failed"

  When I try "sudo apt-get update" I get at bunch of errors, especially
  cdrom errors though I do not have a cdrom

  lsb_release -rd:  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Release:	12.04
  apt-cache policy pkgname: E: Encountered a section with no Package: header  E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages  E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

  I do not have a cdrom or drive e .... not sure where this came from.

  -- ken

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