[Bug 1415370] Re: update manager bug under 12.04

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot 1415370 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Jan 28 12:25:57 UTC 2015


*** 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:
  update manager bug under 12.04

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  yesterday I ran the update manager and today when I logged in I get
  the following error on lunching the update manager

  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/nl.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package
  lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

  I use Ubuntu 12.04

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