Comment 40 for bug 346386

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Hideki Tawarayama (hideki-tawarayama) wrote : Re: [Bug 346386] Re: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header"

I fixed this bug.
Thank you.

(2011年06月17日 02:51), Dalison Rocha wrote:
> Obrigado!(Thank you!)
>
> 2011/6/14 Med Idriss Taki<email address hidden>
>
>> Thank you all of you
>> I had this bug too on Ubuntu 11.04.
>> Now it is fixed with this:
>>
>>> sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
>>> sudo apt-get clean
>>> sudo apt-get update
>>> sudo apt-get upgrade
>> God bless you
>>
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>> duplicate bug report (796740).
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346386
>>
>> Title:
>> [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a
>> section with no Package: header"
>>
>> Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in “apt” source package in Natty:
>> Triaged
>> Status in “apt” package in Debian:
>> Unknown
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Binary package hint: adept-updater
>>
>> Pertinent data printed when attempting to run Updater as follows:
>>
>> 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/us.archive.ubuntu
>> .com_ubuntu_dists_intrepid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The
>> package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
>>
>> WORKAROUND:
>> Remove problematic files from /var/lib/apt/lists/ and rerun apt-get
>> update.
>>
>> In the event that one is connected to a network with a proxy server
>> that returns html pages (like a web page requesting you to login) and
>> not package list files. Those html files will get downloaded to
>> /var/lib/apt/lists/ and prevent someone from using a package manager
>> until the problem html pages are removed.
>>
>> TEST CASE:
>> 1) Ensure /etc/apt/sources.list points to archive.ubuntu.com
>> 2) Setup proxy server to block access to archive.ubuntu.com and return
>> something like http://people.canonical.com/~brian/tmp/not-packages.html
>> 3) Execute 'sudo apt-get update' in a terminal
>> 4) Observe the following:
>> 'E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
>> E: Problem with MergeList
>> /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-amd64_Packages
>> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
>> 5) Try 'apt-cache policy apt' and be sad that it doesn't work
>>
>> With the proposed package installed repeat steps 1 to 3.
>> 4) Observe the following:
>> ''Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease [189 B]
>> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease
>> E: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease: The following
>> signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2'
>> 5) Try 'apt-cache policy apt' and be happy that it works
>>
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