[Bug 1158216] Re: Notification logo appears and update-manager is unable to run

[Ubuntu Foundations Team 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:
  Notification logo appears and update-manager is unable to run

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

Bug description:
  The error message that popped up was:

  "Could not initialize the package information

  An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
  information."

  The it explicitly asked me to include the following error message:

  'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/se.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_precise_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en, E:The
  package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

  More info:
  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu: 	Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

  2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center: 
  When runnign this command in a terminal I get:
  "E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
  E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/se.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en
  E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened."

  3) What you expected to happen: I was not intending to run the update
  manager, it just does regularly, but lately it has had this problem.
  All other functions on the computer seem to be working without
  problem.

  4) What happened instead: I am not sure when was the last update my
  computer managed to complete... but otherwise this generates no
  problem for me.

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