more robustnesss against broken Translation files
Bug #463122 reported by
TheOldFellow
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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apt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
After recent updates to Karmic (I was away for a week), Update-manager, apt-get and Synaptic all crash when run:
Could not initialise the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.
Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to include the following error message:
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
summary: |
- Update-manager crashes immediately + more robustnesss against broken Translation files |
affects: | update-manager (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu) |
Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
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Please attach the file apt/lists/ gb.archive. ubuntu. com_ubuntu_ dists_karmic_ main_i18n_ Translation- en%5fGB
/var/lib/
to this bugreport and remove it afterwards.