Comment 35 for bug 194436

I updated my Ubuntu from 08.10 upto 09.04 but while updating it went wrong; the update kept hanging a few times, now i can't run the package manager anymore and receive this message;

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/dpkg/status, E:De pakketlijsten of het statusbestand konden of niet ontleed, of niet geopend worden.'

When i start the package manager i receive;

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

and i want to add/remove this happens;

Failed to check for installed and available applications

This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.

help!