E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages

Bug #767541 reported by Brian SMith
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Bug Description

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Ubuntu 11.04. Sorry f this is a duplicate.

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_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.26.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 17 19:49:48 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with AttributeError in _on_trans_finished(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'code'
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/aptd.py", line 625, in _on_trans_finished
     if trans.error.code == enums.ERROR_INVALID_PACKAGE_FILE:
 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'code'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-17 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #761642, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

affects: ubuntu → software-center (Ubuntu)
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
visibility: private → public
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