update-manager packages crash report
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1) Ubuntu 11.10
2) apt-cache policy pkgname
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
3) updates
4) error
"Impossible d'initialiser les données sur les paquets
Un problème irrémédiable est survenu pendant l'initialisation des informations du paquet.
Veuillez signaler ce bogue du paquet « update-manager » en y joignant le message d'erreur suivant :
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
Opening Synaptics : error occured too.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Reviewing your bug report it seems that you are experiencing bug 346386. This issue happens when you have tried to update your package information when you are a network that didn't return the right files. This issue can be cleaned up by using the following commands in a terminal:
1.) sudo rm /var/lib/ apt/lists/ *
2.) sudo apt-get update
Thanks and good luck!
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