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petecorbs
October 29th, 2009, 12:23 PM
Hi
This morning when i arrived at work i found Ubuntu behaving strangely (opening multiple firefox windows for no reason etc) i restarted and the problems seem to persist.
I currently have a no entry sign in my toolbar and when i run over it i get an error message. (see below)

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-updates_restricted_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

Does anyone have any ideas i am a newbie to Ubuntu and have no idea where to start.

Thanks

Soul-Sing
October 29th, 2009, 01:35 PM
Take a look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1263038&highlight=Eroblem+MergeList+%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fapt%2Fl ists