Update and Synaptic Managers / Add Remove apps crashing.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Ubuntu
Release Gutsy 7.10
Linux 2.6.22-14-generic
GNome 2.20.1
[Compiz (CCSM) installed]
Hardware
RAM 1024MB
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Available Disk Space
28GB
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Update Manager crash details:
- Could not initialize the package information
A 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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Synaptic Pkg Manager crash details:
An error occured
The following details are provided:
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.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
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Add/Remove Apps crash details:
Failed to check for installed and available applications
This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/
All this was shortly after attempting to reinstall Mozilla-Firefox since sites containing flash began crashing the system altogether. After booting, I attempted to troubleshoot by reinstalling, remove/reinstall GSWF flash plugin, but did not correct issue; hence attempting to remove/reinstall Mozilla, since a simple reinstall did not work either. I'm including status file for your enjoyment. I tried attaching sources.list file, but couldn't figure out how to attach a 2nd file. Please let me know where to email it if necessary. System continued to reject Update Manager as a valid package, hence the "I don't know"
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Hope this helps and thanks in advanced for all your hard work guys/gals.
Seth [DJScribe]
<email address hidden>
Hi,
Thanks for the detailed bug report?
Are you able to use a terminal and
run "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" ok
(you don't have to do the upgrade)?
Thanks,
James