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Update manager problem since broadband outage

Asked by Welshdar

The update manager was running whilst there were broadband problems,
this caused the following error (with a no-entry icon).

"An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.

Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to include the following error message:

'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.' "

I thought 'sudo apt-get update' may resolve this but still get ...

"Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. "

Do I have to individually delete my i386 packages then update or does anyone know a way this
can be resolved ?

Thanks,

Darren

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#1

Try running this:-
sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages.bak

to just rename the file in question and then try running sudo apt-get update again.

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Welshdar (darlozhallie) said : 		#2

Pramod

That's great ... solved it.

Thanks