Ubuntu
appstream-glib package

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1614105
  3. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1614105

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

I do think this has been coming up when there has been bad metadata on the system. Recent reports of it show errors like this:

W:Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/otto-kesselgulasch-ubuntu-gimp-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/otto-kesselgulasch-ubuntu-gimp-xenial.list:3, W:Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/otto-kesselgulasch-ubuntu-gimp-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/otto-kesselgulasch-ubuntu-gimp-xenial.list:4, W:Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/otto-kesselgulasch-ubuntu-gimp-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/otto-kesselgulasch-ubuntu-gimp-xenial.list:5, W:Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-ubuntu-brackets-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-ubuntu-brackets-xenial.list:3, W:Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-ubuntu-brackets-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-ubuntu-brackets-xenial.list:4, E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_pmjdebruijn_darktable-release_ubuntu_dists_xenial_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:As listas de pacotes ou os arquivos de estado não puderam ser analisados ou abertos.

E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_pmjdebruijn_darktable-release_ubuntu_dists_xenial_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:As listas de pacotes ou os arquivos de estado não puderam ser analisados ou abertos.

E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/za.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_xenial_main_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

No reports yet with the appstream-glib fix present, so I think continue to watch this and see if any come in with that fix present still.