Update Manager Fails 12.04
Bug #1027106 reported by
Jason Merenda
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #346386: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header".
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Bug Description
Upbuntu 12.04 LTS. I run Update Manager and it fails with 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/
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| Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote | #1 |
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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/
2.) sudo apt-get update
Thanks and good luck!
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