[Bug 1254271] Re: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList

[kapetr]

But the reason for this Bug seems to be the same:

apt get files with HTTP without check them in any kind - try to use them
and fails - and stops working without manual assistance

The solution can be maybe simple:

- use https or
- check type of content or
- download not just the file but also file with e.g. hash to check integrity or
- ...

That would simply solve such situation like mine: redirected HTTP (e.g.
in WiFi networks with some "login" process, ...).

BTW - I do not know for what these files are, but: could not this issue
be also security problem ? If apt download and use them with blind trust
?

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Title:
  E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList

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

Bug description:
  1. ubuntu-bug update-manager fails - so manually:
  2. I get error from update manager (in Czech):

  ------------------------
  Nahlaste prosím tento problém vůči balíčku „update-manager“ a přiložte následující chybovou hlášku:

  'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_main_i18n_Translation-cs, E:Seznamy balíků nebo stavový soubor nemohly být zpracovány nebo otevřeny.'
  --------------------------

  The  /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-
  security_main_i18n_Translation-cs is in attachment.

  As you can see - in the file is not what should.

  I use wifi ISP - hotspot => before log in, all HTTP traffic is redirected to ISP's login page.
  I do not know how, but Ubuntu gets this content and saves it to this file.

  I have to delete this file and re-run update manager to get proper content (after ISP login).
  The problem is only with this file - in  /var/lib/apt/lists/.

  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64b.

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