bcrawford
May 17th, 2011, 02:06 PM
Ok,
I am new to the Ubuntu scene so bear with me(I do have some experience with Meego though). I have just done a fresh install of 11.04 on a dual-boot setup on my ASUS N53JF. It's been running rather smoothly although I have had a few issues.
When I attempt to run the update manager I get this message:
Could not initialize the package information
'E:Encountered a section with no package header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/linux.dropbox.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binar y-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
I then proceeded to try through terminal
sudo apt-get update
Get:35 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick InRelease
Ign http://linux.dropbox.com maverick InRelease
Get:36 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main amd64 Packages
99% [36 Packages bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
Get:37 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main TranslationIndex
99% [36 Packages xz 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]/usr/bin/xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
Get:38 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main Translation-en_US
Get:39 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main Translation-en
99% [38 Translation-en_US bzip2 0 B] [39 Translation-en 1,373 B]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
99% [39 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
99% [36 Packages lzma 0 B] [38 Translation-en_US xz 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com] 1,324 B/s 3s/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
/usr/bin/xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
99% [39 Translation-en xz 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]/usr/bin/xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
99% [38 Translation-en_US lzma 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
99% [39 Translation-en lzma 0 B]/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
Fetched 13.5 MB in 3min 18s (68.0 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/linux.dropbox.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binar y-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
After a few minutes, I get the same error once it starts reading the package lists. I have tried running
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update
but with no success.
On a seperate note, when I try to run the additional driver program from the control center, nothing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am new to the Ubuntu scene so bear with me(I do have some experience with Meego though). I have just done a fresh install of 11.04 on a dual-boot setup on my ASUS N53JF. It's been running rather smoothly although I have had a few issues.
When I attempt to run the update manager I get this message:
Could not initialize the package information
'E:Encountered a section with no package header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/linux.dropbox.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binar y-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
I then proceeded to try through terminal
sudo apt-get update
Get:35 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick InRelease
Ign http://linux.dropbox.com maverick InRelease
Get:36 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main amd64 Packages
99% [36 Packages bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
Get:37 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main TranslationIndex
99% [36 Packages xz 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]/usr/bin/xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
Get:38 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main Translation-en_US
Get:39 http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main Translation-en
99% [38 Translation-en_US bzip2 0 B] [39 Translation-en 1,373 B]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
99% [39 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
99% [36 Packages lzma 0 B] [38 Translation-en_US xz 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com] 1,324 B/s 3s/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
/usr/bin/xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
99% [39 Translation-en xz 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]/usr/bin/xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
99% [38 Translation-en_US lzma 0 B] [Connecting to linux.dropbox.com]/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
99% [39 Translation-en lzma 0 B]/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
Fetched 13.5 MB in 3min 18s (68.0 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/linux.dropbox.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binar y-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
After a few minutes, I get the same error once it starts reading the package lists. I have tried running
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update
but with no success.
On a seperate note, when I try to run the additional driver program from the control center, nothing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.