[Bug 1063355] Re: software updater crashes on load

[Jamie Strandboge]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Visibility changed to: Public

** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability

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Title:
  software updater crashes on load

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

Bug description:
  This is what popped up in a new window:

  An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package
  information.

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

  'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The
  package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

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