Update Manager cannot initialise package information
Bug #1325155 reported by
Shane Baylis
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #346386: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header".
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Update Manager has requested I report this bug, with notification as follows:
Could not initialise the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising 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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Additional details:
bshane@ mu00052574: ~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
bshane@ mu00052574: ~$ apt-cache policy update-manager apt/lists/ archive. ubuntu. com_ubuntu_ dists_precise_ main_i18n_ Translation- en
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.