[Bug 788900] Re: Could Not Initialize the Package Information - Malformed 1st word

[Edward Donovan]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 886273 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886273

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 108601
   Update-manager needs help info when terminating on wrong repositories and generally deal better with incorrect sources.list data
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 886273
   improve handling of broken sources.list files

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Title:
  Could Not Initialize the Package Information - Malformed 1st word

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Text from the error message: 
  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:Malformed 1st word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while
  processing psmisc (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList
  /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The package lists or status file could not be
  parsed or opened.'

  The above error occurred out of nowhere.  I was not updating anything
  or installing any packages.  Started up update-manager and there it
  is.

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