[Bug 1311969] Re: update-manager status file corruption

[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:
  update-manager status file corruption

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

Bug description:
  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/dpkg/status, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

  12.04 LTS Dell 745 tower, 2gb, 200gb, (dual OS - W2000 on 60GB. 12.04 on rest) sys fine until installing GNUCASH via software center.  
  About 3/4 way through d/l sys crashed.  Reported as corrupt 1st line in dpkg/status file.  Gedit on status file nets this warning - The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document. You can also choose another character encoding and try again.  (Unable to edit due to read only status.)

  Status-old file opens with no issues.  Unable to rename  files due to
  ownership issue.  Various apt-get attempts result in error messages or
  inability to read or load files.

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