E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gr.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty-backports_universe_binary-i386_Packages
Bug #410131 reported by
xmac
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
the following text appeared in the notification area:
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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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I use 9.04 version of ubuntu
summary: |
- update-manager: "Could not initialize the package information" + E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with + MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gr.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty- + backports_universe_binary-i386_Packages |
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