[Bug 905377] Re: Update Manager suggested sending in bug report -"Could not initialize the package information"

[John Mangan]

Tim,

That fixed the problem.  After running these, I did get an error message
about a "locks' file permission.  However, it did not prevent me from
successfully running the update.  Thanks for all the help.

John

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Tim <RedSingularity at gmx.com> wrote:

> Run these:
>
> sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status-tmp
>
> then...
>
> sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Then try the 'sudo apt-get update'
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> Title:
>  Update Manager suggested sending in bug report -"Could not initialize
>  the package information"
>
> Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
>  information.
>
>  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
>  include the following error message:
>
>  'W:Encountered status field in a non-version description, E:Malformed
>  1st word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing amarok-
>  common (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status,
>  E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
>
>  Ubuntu release
>  ~$ lsb_release -rd
>  Description:  Ubuntu 10.10
>  Release:      10.10
>
>  Package version
>  ~$ apt-cache policy package-manager
>  Segmentation fault
>
>  Ubuntu - bug didn't work; gave further error
>  Could not open location 'file:///home/john/ubunter%20-bug'
>  error stating file '/home/john/ubuntu -
>  bug': No such file or directory
>
>  Hope this helps someone; it's all bits to me.
>
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Title:
  Update Manager suggested sending in bug report -"Could not initialize
  the package information"

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

Bug description:
  An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
  information.

  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
  include the following error message:

  'W:Encountered status field in a non-version description, E:Malformed
  1st word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing amarok-
  common (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status,
  E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

  Ubuntu release
  ~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
  Release:	10.10

  Package version
  ~$ apt-cache policy package-manager
  Segmentation fault

  Ubuntu - bug didn't work; gave further error
  Could not open location 'file:///home/john/ubunter%20-bug'
  error stating file '/home/john/ubuntu -
  bug': No such file or directory

  Hope this helps someone; it's all bits to me.

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