update manager stopped functioning

[Peter Suschnigg]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

Although #228793 looks almost identical I do hope you will be able to help me. On trying to update nothing happens for quite some time and I eventually get the following messsage:

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/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

I am using
Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel Linux 2.6.24-19-generic
GNOME 2.22.3

Iwould really appreciate your help. I too am a recent convert from the "dark side" and am totally happy with Ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 4 14:53:01 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.22.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please attach this file:
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages

and after that, delete it from you disk and run "Check" in update-manager and see if that fixes the issue?

[Peter Suschnigg (psuschnigg)]

Dear Michael,
   I'm really grateful for your suggestion and tried to follow it. But as
you see I was denied permission. Before I do something I regret -- was I
to "sudo"? This is what happened so far:

peter@peter-desktop:~$
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages
bash:
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages:
Permission denied

Any help would be appreciated. By now I have 14 updates waiting and I fear
the number will simply increase if I do not lick this problem.

Cheers,
Peter

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:46:54 -0400, Michael Vogt <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> Could you please attach this file:
> /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages
>
> and after that, delete it from you disk and run "Check" in update-
> manager and see if that fixes the issue?
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Peter, is it still an issue ?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!