Failure to run update-manager
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
Update Manager fails to run. Systems displays message:
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/
Running recovery mode did not helped.
Using
-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64)
Compiled : #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012
C Library : Unknown
Default C Compiler : GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
Distribution : Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Please advice.
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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