Could not initialize the package information

Bug #545471 reported by Fisher
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

E:The package libwxsvg-dev is not ok and I don't know how to fix it!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 23 17:14:26 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.126.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64

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Fisher (yufu-fisher) wrote :
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #569540, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade ? This will help us diagnose the problem.

Please also include the file /var/lib/dpkg/status.

Thanks,
Robert
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Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Manikanth (mj-manikanth) wrote :

Here is the error that i get :

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.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_partner_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

Including the file : /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Fisher (yufu-fisher) wrote :

I am sorry that I can't access the computer with this bug again. Hope the others can contribute useful information.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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