update error with 12.04

[Nils Kassube]

rikona wrote:
> Sunday, June 8, 2014, 12:32:07 PM, Nils wrote:
> > rikona wrote:
> >> Just tried an update. The GUI comes up only with a new boot [an old
> >> problem on this box] but exits without doing anything.
> >> 
> >> CLI with 'apt-get update' gets almost all the way through, but ends
> >> with:
> >> 
> >> -------
> >> 
> >> Get:81 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe
> >> Translation-en [32.9 kB]
> >> Ign http://www.mediahuman.com precise/main TranslationIndex
> >> Ign http://www.mediahuman.com precise/main Translation-en_US
> >> Ign http://www.mediahuman.com precise/main Translation-en
> >> Fetched 27.7 MB in 3min 17s (140 kB/s)
> >> Reading package lists... Error!
> >> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> >> E: Problem with MergeList
> >> /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-
> >> updates_restricted_i18n_Translation-en
> > 
> > You can remove the above mentioned file (as root) and run apt-get
> > update again. That should fix the problem.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion! It did take care of that one file, but then
> complained about another one. I removed that one, and it complained
> about yet another one. After repeating this many times it was finally
> happy. Side note - the GUI exits until all the files are fixed.
> 
> Is there a way to ID all the bad files and remove them, then just run
> once? What happened to make them bad files?

Well, the obvious solution would be to remove all files in the directory 
"/var/lib/apt/lists/" except "/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/". And then run 
apt-get update again ...


Nils