Public WIFI "Blocked Websites" Broke Update Manager and Software Center
| 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
12.04 LTS
I ran Update Manager on a train that provides free WIFI. The train blocks certain pages. Something in Update Manager and Software Center broke in the process.
Now there's a red warning icon in the upper left near the clock and every time I run Update Manager or Software Centre it crashes. I get:
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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/
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The text from the train's blocked interception pages has made its way into files found in /var/lib/
$ cat /var/lib/
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=
<title>Access Denied</title>
</head>
<body>
<BR><BR>
<center><img src="http://
The VIA Rail Wi-Fi service is a shared Internet connection that works best when browsing basic Internet content or e-mailing. We ask that you please refrain from uploading or downloading large files. VIA Rail may restrict access to some web sites or restrict the use of high levels of bandwidth.
<BR><BR>
Le service Wi-Fi de VIA Rail est une connexion Internet partagée qui fonctionne mieux lorsque vous naviguez sur du contenu de base ou utilisez votre messagerie électronique. Nous vous demandons de bien vouloir vous abstenir de télécharger ou de téléverser de gros fichiers. VIA Rail peut restreindre l’accès à certains sites ainsi qu’à l’utilisation de la bande passante en cas d’abus.<br>Vos commentaires au sujet du service Wi-Fi de VIA Rail peuvent être acheminés à <a href=mailto:<email address hidden>><email address hidden></a>.
<small style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
</body>
</html>
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I'm not sure how I can fix this gracefully...
Regards,
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