Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
Some users find themselves unable to update/run the package manager with
one of the following errors:
Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
This can occur when the update manager attempts to download package
lists, but receives a HTML document from their gateway.
If the package manager could determine the format of the package lists,
making sure it's not a HTML file, before trying to parse it, the manager
could rectify or, at least, inform the user that it is unable to
update/download because it is having trouble downloading the package
lists.
In order to resolve this issue, I removed all files under
/var/lib/apt/lists and ran 'sudo apt-get update', perhaps the package
manager could automate this process?
Thanks Ubuntu Team! :)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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Update manager fails - Encountered a section with no Package: header [Problem
and fix]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393826
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