[Bug 881724] Re: update manager crashes on opening

[josh duke]

Apparently I needed to do that, because that did it.  11.10 is
installing right now.

Thanks a ton.  What happened and what all did we do to fix it?

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Title:
  update manager crashes on opening

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

Bug description:
  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/us.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists
  or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

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