Public bug reported:
I'm fairly close to a noob on this, so I'm just reporting exactly what
the error window says:
<quote>
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/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_universe_binary-i386_Packages,
E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
</quote>
So I'm stuck with a system that cannot update itself. Running the
command "sudo apt-get update" from the terminal causes the following
error:
<quote>
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
</quote>
Should I wait for a bug fix, or should I completely reinstall Ubuntu?
This is a system where the initial install was 11.04 and then I allowed
the upgrade to 11.10. That was a month ago and it has been running OK
until this error that first occurred today. The only recent activity
that I imagine might be connected to this is, I recently ran the
"Janitor" utility to try to improve boot and shutdown performance. It
did result in an improvement. That is the first time I've ever run that
utility. I ran it two or three times until it found nothing else to
remove. That was several days ago, and the system worked OK since then,
but maybe there was already a problem with update-manager after I ran
the Janitor util.
Attached is the contents of /var/log/dist-upgrade in a single file, "bugfiles"
which was created with:
tar -cvz --file bugfiles /var/log/dist-upgrade/*
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update-manager crashes; problem with merge list
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