[Bug 1273971] Re: 12.04 update-manager crashed and requested a bug report

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot]

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

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.  Reviewing your bug report it seems that you are
experiencing bug 346386.  This issue happens when you have tried to
update your package information when you are a network that didn't
return the right files.  This issue can be cleaned up by using the
following commands in a terminal:

1.) sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
2.) sudo apt-get update

Thanks and good luck!

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

** Tags added: bot-comment

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Title:
  12.04 update-manager crashed and requested a bug report

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

Bug description:
  Installed squid (apt-get), apache(apt-get), webmin(wget/dpkg) and vamps(apt-get), ran into difficulties with webmin/squid,  purged squid and re-installed it from webmin, then the next run of update-manager crashed and requested a bug report:
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  Could not initialise the package information

  An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising 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/au.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
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  Couldn't find this particular symptom in existing update-manager bugs,
  sorry if it's duplicated. Update-manager also says "this usually means
  your installed packages have unmet dependencies". I've run "apt-get
  check" to resolve dependecies and get the same error.

  "apt-cache policy update-manager" returns the same error message

  ubuntu-bug seems unable to identify the package, and doesn't give me
  the option to enter a package name when selecting "other problem".

  cheers

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