Error message when starting Package Manager
On the Panel, I have a red circle symbol with a white line through it.
If I hover over it, it displays the message:
“An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what's wrong. The error message was:'Error:Opening the cache (E:Encountered a sction with no Package: header, e:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
If I right click on it and then click on “Show Updates”, I get the following 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/
If I right click on it and then click “Start Package Manager”, it starts loading the Package Manager, then I get,
“An error occurred
The following details are provided:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
”
[End of message]
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You are using Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal - released in April 2011 and supported until October 2012.
I just recently installed 11.04 and this has been happening ever since.
Contact info: Bruce McCormick, <email address hidden>
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