Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 2

Sat Oct 3 08:41:15 UTC 2015

Thank you Leszek,

I found a fix on the Ubuntu forums, as follows:

  sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf

  sudo apt-get update

The exclamation mark has gone now, so all back to normal.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:00 PM, <lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:35:10 -0700
> From: Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>
> To: "lubuntu-qa at lists.launchpad.net" <lubuntu-qa at lists.launchpad.net>,
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> Subject: Lubuntu Team catch up with Community Council
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> Here's the logs of the catch up with the Community Council (note, this
> includes the WHOLE meeting and starts with MATE):
>  * in [colorific form][1] but continues on past the end of the meeting
>  * in [meetingology text form][2], including meeting summaries and such
>
> If you guys have been paying attention here, there should be no surprises.
> Some unique ideas that are perhaps on the horizon, though:
>  * it was suggested that the boss look into using Ubuntu Core Apps for LXQt
> since they supposedly have removed the Unity dependency? more research
> needs to be done
>  * it was suggested that we invite the Lubuntu Team to do a Community Q&A
> session, which is a very visible Ubuntu On Air session. time is a bit rough
> for me, but i'm going to see what I can do to make it happen. unless
> someone else wants to head it up? Tuesday 1500 UTC.
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> [1]: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/10/01/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t17:00
> [2]:
>
> http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2015/ubuntu-meeting.2015-10-01-17.01.moin.txt
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> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 15:12:15 -0500
> From: Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com>
> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Lubuntu Team catch up with Community Council
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> This is great!
> I had hoped LXQt would end up using some of the Ubuntu core apps, as
> that will provide more incentive for us Lubuntu fans to perhaps make
> Ubuntu apps (for Lubuntu)!
> This gives me more incentive to learn Qt.
>
> P.S. for all you Education people, homeschoolers, and parents
> GCompris is also using Qt in the newest version
>
> I am really looking forward to trying LXQt again, it has been a loooong
> while since I had tested it last.  I am sure it is even more exciting
> that when it first came out!
>
> On 10/01/2015 01:35 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> > Here's the logs of the catch up with the Community Council (note, this
> > includes the WHOLE meeting and starts with MATE):
> >  * in [colorific form][1] but continues on past the end of the meeting
> >  * in [meetingology text form][2], including meeting summaries and such
> >
> > If you guys have been paying attention here, there should be no
> > surprises. Some unique ideas that are perhaps on the horizon, though:
> >  * it was suggested that the boss look into using Ubuntu Core Apps for
> > LXQt since they supposedly have removed the Unity dependency? more
> > research needs to be done
> >  * it was suggested that we invite the Lubuntu Team to do a Community
> > Q&A session, which is a very visible Ubuntu On Air session. time is a
> > bit rough for me, but i'm going to see what I can do to make it
> > happen. unless someone else wants to head it up? Tuesday 1500 UTC.
> >
> > [1]: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/10/01/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t17:00
> > [2]:
> http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2015/ubuntu-meeting.2015-10-01-17.01.moin.txt
> >
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> > @wxl | http://polka.bike
> > Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA
> > Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
> > Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader
> > Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member
> > Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:16:46 +0200
> From: Steven Duckworth <literati69 at gmail.com>
> To: lubuntu user list <lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Serious Problem Encountered
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> Please help!
>
> An exclamation mark suddenly appeared on my taskbar next to the network
> indicator, and on clicking it I received the following:
>
> 'An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or
> apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong.
> The error message was: 'Error: Opening the cache (E: encountered a section
> with no Package: header, E: Problem with
> Mergelist / var/lib/apt/lists... installed packages have unmet
> dependencies.'
>
> Synaptic won't open, stating a similar error.
>
> Any idea how to recover the system?
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:21:31 +0200
> From: Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de>
> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Serious Problem Encountered
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> Hi,
>
> Am 02.10.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Steven Duckworth:
> > Please help!
> >
> > An exclamation mark suddenly appeared on my taskbar next to the
> > network indicator, and on clicking it I received the following:
> >
> > 'An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click
> > menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong.
> > The error message was: 'Error: Opening the cache (E: encountered a
> > section with no Package: header, E: Problem with
> > Mergelist / var/lib/apt/lists... installed packages have unmet
> > dependencies.'
> >
> > Synaptic won't open, stating a similar error.
> >
> > Any idea how to recover the system?
> >
> Try opening up a terminal and entering
> sudo apt-get update
> Does it fix it ?
> If not try moving /renaming the file that is mentioned in the error
> report (the /var/lib/apt/lists/ one) and executing
> sudo apt-get update
> again.
> This should fix it.
>
> Basically the list locally stored informing which apps are available on
> the repo is corrupted for some reason.
>
> Hope that helps :)
>
> Greetings
> Leszek
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