Error : Opening the cache

[mark]

E:Encountered a section with no Package:header,E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status,E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.) This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies.

Happened when trying to upgrade to 16.04.1

[mark (linux2)]

Seems that I can't access software updater, Ubuntu Software Centre now. Why?
Help with this bug description would be great. Is it a 16.04.1 or 14.04 issue as I was trying to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04.1 ?

[Amos Jeffries (yadi)]

What make you think this is a bug in Squid?

[mark (linux2)]

I didn't think this was a bug in squid. Just the way it came up in the report. Wanting to figure out this issue so I can continue with the upgrade to 16.04.1. Any ideas ?

[mark (linux2)]

This is what I'm getting after trying to upgrade to 16.04.1 from 14.04
Looking for language to correct the situation.

[mark (linux2)]

E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

This is what I see in the Terminal when I try different things.
Commands to correct it ?

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.

If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

Try https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/1591

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

And please provide the output of the command

ls -ld /var/lib/dpkg/s*

[mark (linux2)]

Followed the commands and nothing happened that I could see. Entered all
3 commands ok with no results after each entry.

List that showed from from your 2nd email commands.

~$ ls -ld /var/lib/dpkg/s*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163 Jul 22 2014 /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2177913 Aug 10 15:51 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2182489 Aug 8 18:38 /var/lib/dpkg/status.bad
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2179132 Aug 10 15:51 /var/lib/dpkg/status-old

On 2016-08-11 12:00 AM, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Try https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/1591
>

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

What is now the output of

sudo apt-get update
head /var/lib/dpkg/status

[mark (linux2)]

Result after both commands.

Package: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 114
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:13.0.0-1build1
Provides: xorg-driver-input
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), xorg-input-abi-20, xserver-xorg-core (>=
2:1.14.99.902), xserver-xorg-input-mouse, udev

On 2016-08-11 05:19 AM, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> sudo apt-get update

[mark (linux2)]

After sudo apt-get update command.

Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-security/universe Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/main Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/restricted amd64 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/multiverse amd64 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/main Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com xenial-backports/universe Translation-en
Fetched 2,430 kB in 13s (183 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/universe/binary-i386/Packages
Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

On 2016-08-11 05:19 AM, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> What is now the output of
>
> sudo apt-get update
> head /var/lib/dpkg/status
>

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