Update Manager suggested sending in bug report -"Could not initialize the package information"

[John Mangan]

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'W:Encountered status field in a non-version description, E:Malformed 1st word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing amarok-common (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

Ubuntu release
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

Package version
~$ apt-cache policy package-manager
Segmentation fault

Ubuntu - bug didn't work; gave further error
Could not open location 'file:///home/john/ubunter%20-bug'
error stating file '/home/john/ubuntu -
bug': No such file or directory

Hope this helps someone; it's all bits to me.

[Phil. V (philip.v)]

I'll send this over to update-manager since that seems like the correct package, unless you had a specific reason for packaging it against kubuntu-meta?

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Are you sill having this problem after a reboot?
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[John Mangan (jf1-mangan)]

Yes. The problem still exists after several reboots. I'm about to just
reload a newer version on Edubuntu (11.04). Just haven't found the time to
try to "save" the desktop items and find out what I've installed since the
original install. Getting a list of installed packages isn't working for
me. Haven't been able to download updates or packages since the bug report
was submitted. Not critical as this is occurring on my young son's
computer.

John

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Tim <email address hidden> wrote:

> Are you sill having this problem after a reboot?
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> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905377
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> Title:
> Update Manager suggested sending in bug report -"Could not initialize
> the package information"
>
> Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
> information.
>
> Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
> include the following error message:
>
> 'W:Encountered status field in a non-version description, E:Malformed
> 1st word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing amarok-
> common (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status,
> E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
>
> Ubuntu release
> ~$ lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 10.10
> Release: 10.10
>
> Package version
> ~$ apt-cache policy package-manager
> Segmentation fault
>
> Ubuntu - bug didn't work; gave further error
> Could not open location 'file:///home/john/ubunter%20-bug'
> error stating file '/home/john/ubuntu -
> bug': No such file or directory
>
> Hope this helps someone; it's all bits to me.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/905377/+subscriptions
>

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[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Run these:

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status-tmp

then...

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status

Then try the 'sudo apt-get update'
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[John Mangan (jf1-mangan)]

Tim,

That fixed the problem. After running these, I did get an error message
about a "locks' file permission. However, it did not prevent me from
successfully running the update. Thanks for all the help.

John

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Tim <email address hidden> wrote:

> Run these:
>
> sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status-tmp
>
> then...
>
> sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Then try the 'sudo apt-get update'
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905377
>
> Title:
> Update Manager suggested sending in bug report -"Could not initialize
> the package information"
>
> Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
> information.
>
> Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
> include the following error message:
>
> 'W:Encountered status field in a non-version description, E:Malformed
> 1st word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing amarok-
> common (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status,
> E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
>
> Ubuntu release
> ~$ lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 10.10
> Release: 10.10
>
> Package version
> ~$ apt-cache policy package-manager
> Segmentation fault
>
> Ubuntu - bug didn't work; gave further error
> Could not open location 'file:///home/john/ubunter%20-bug'
> error stating file '/home/john/ubuntu -
> bug': No such file or directory
>
> Hope this helps someone; it's all bits to me.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/905377/+subscriptions
>

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[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Thanks for confirming. Closing report.
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