Could not initialize the package information
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have a red circle warning on the top panel of my laptop using Unity in Precise. It displays the following message and advised me to report it. So here it is. This problem No. 1 at (a) below. A second problem on my main computer desktop running Unity in Precise also at (b) below. Ubuntu running great apart from these two. Any help appreciated.
(a) "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/
(b) Sometimes when I click the dash button to go and find a program, the computer just freezes and the only way to get out of it is to force the computer down via the power button or do a Ctrl + Alt + F1 which brings you into terminal mode and allows you to reboot the computer from the command line. I am a linux newbie, so bear with my questions. Thank you.
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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