update-manager cannot start

[virginie.ponzone]

Binary package hint: update-manager

'E:Problem parsing dependency Depends, E:Erreur apparue lors du traitement de openshot-mlt (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/lprod.org_deb_hardy_._Packages, E:Les listes de paquets ou le fichier « status » ne peuvent être analysés ou lus.'

virginie@virginie-desktop:~$ ubuntu-bug -p update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 254, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/ui.py", line 315, in run_argv
    return self.run_report_bug()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/ui.py", line 288, in run_report_bug
    self.collect_info()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/ui.py", line 415, in collect_info
    icthread.exc_raise()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 37, in run
    self._retval = self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/ui.py", line 37, in thread_collect_info
    report.add_package_info(package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/report.py", line 209, in add_package_info
    packaging.get_version(package),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 56, in get_version
    return self._cache(package).installedVersion
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 47, in _cache
    self._apt_cache = apt.Cache()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.open(progress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 62, in open
    self._cache = apt_pkg.GetCache(progress)
SystemError: E:Problem parsing dependency Depends, E:Erreur apparue lors du traitement de openshot-mlt (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/lprod.org_deb_hardy_._Packages, E:Les listes de paquets ou le fichier « status » ne peuvent être analysés ou lus.

[virginie.ponzone (virginie-ponzone)]

Ubuntu 8.04.4
 2.6.24-27-generic
virginie@virginie-desktop:~$ apt-cache show update-manager
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Erreur apparue lors du traitement de openshot-mlt (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/lprod.org_deb_hardy_._Packages

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 534019 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]