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smooth5959
June 3rd, 2011, 07:08 AM
I have been using 11.04 for a while, no real problems, until recently when i go to launch Update Manager, i get the following message: (someone please help)

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

plucky
June 3rd, 2011, 07:37 AM
I have been using 11.04 for a while, no real problems, until recently when i go to launch Update Manager, i get the following message: (someone please help)

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

Welcome to the Forum.

Open a terminal and run
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update and then see if update manager will now run.


Good Luck

Jalexa5834
June 3rd, 2011, 02:34 PM
Thanks so much. I've been struggling with this very issue for a couple weeks now. Very simple solution and much appreciated!

Any ideas on what may have caused this to happen in the first place? It was working well until just over a couple weeks ago...

Thanks again!

smooth5959
June 3rd, 2011, 03:21 PM
Thank you so much, it worked! This is why i LOVE Ubuntuand the Ubuntu community. Thanks again