[Bug 548913] Re: update manager fails

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 346386 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346386

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 346386
   Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header"

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Title:
  update manager fails

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

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 9.10 after earlier successful updates
  ---------------------------------------------------------

  When update manager is run now the foll message appears:
  Could not initialize the package information

  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/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package
  lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

  -------------------------------------------------------

  The above problem was preceded by update manager repeatedly failing to upgrade to kernel 2.6.31-20 after it was downloaded (with error message):
  E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic_2.6.31-20.58_i386.deb: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/zoran/zr36067.ko')
  E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.31-20_2.6.31-20.58_all.deb: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20/arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h')

  ----------------------------------------------------------

  System is working but boot problems occur requiring use of recovery
  mode under 2.6.31-20. I had earlier reported a bug under synaptic. So
  both problems are there simultaneously. Ubuntu 9.10 live CD was run to
  check for disk errors. No disk errors were reported.