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<div dir="auto">The location is presumably the one you originally posted in the original error message.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">P</div><div dir='auto'><br></div>
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<div dir="auto">On 20 April 2021 08:15:37 "Bob" <ubuntu-qygzanxc@listemail.net> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto">** Reply to message from Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> on Tue, 20 Apr 2021</div>
<div dir="auto">07:59:11 +0100</div>
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<div dir="auto">(Apologies for top-posting: I'm on a phone)</div>
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<div dir="auto">If there really is a 'k' in that end-tag, that is an XML well-formedness </div>
<div dir="auto">error and can be fixed by removing the 'k'.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Peter</div>
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<div dir="auto">Probably. Tell me the name and location of that file.</div>
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<div dir="auto">On 20 April 2021 00:01:20 "Bob" <ubuntu-qygzanxc@listemail.net> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto">The computer that has this problem is basically a file and print server so I</div>
<div dir="auto">seldom logon to it. I tried to use firefox and get the following popup message</div>
<div dir="auto">during firefox startup.</div>
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<div dir="auto">XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </popupnotification>.</div>
<div dir="auto">Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml</div>
<div dir="auto">Line Number 1791, Column 7:</div>
<div dir="auto"></popupnotifkcation></div>
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<div dir="auto">I deleted the current profile and recreated it. Same problem. I then decided</div>
<div dir="auto">to try and update the system. That failed with the following message.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Reading package lists... Error!</div>
<div dir="auto">E: Problem parsing dependency 21 of</div>
<div dir="auto">gcc-8-aarch64-linux-gnu:amd64=8.4.0-3ubuntu1cross1</div>
<div dir="auto">E: Error occurred while processing gcc-8-aarch64-linux-gnu (NewVersion2)</div>
<div dir="auto">E: Problem with MergeList</div>
<div dir="auto">/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_universe_binary-amd64_Packages</div>
<div dir="auto">E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I then tried the magic incantation of</div>
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<div dir="auto">pkg --configure -a</div>
<div dir="auto">apt install -f</div>
<div dir="auto">apt clean</div>
<div dir="auto">apt auto remove</div>
<div dir="auto">apt update</div>
<div dir="auto">apt full-upgrade -y</div>
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<div dir="auto">which did not help. It failed at 'apt install -f' with the same error.</div>
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<div dir="auto">After some searching of the internet I looked at</div>
<div dir="auto">"https://askubuntu.com/questions/30072/how-do-i-fix-a-problem-with-mergelist-or-status-file-could-not-be-parsed-err"</div>
<div dir="auto">which fixed that problem with apt.</div>
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<div dir="auto">After the upgrade firefox still gets the error popup,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Anyone have a suggestion on how to recover from this error?</div>
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