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September 5th, 2008, 08:26 PM
My updater stopped working with the following message:
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_ binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
What do I do now (besides informing this forum of the problem)?
I've encountered this type problem before with "Available" and was able to eliminate it by rerunning the updater repeatedly and manually corrected the corrupted line where it crashed. It seems that for this type problem I should be able to somehow reconstruct the essential configuration files from scratch. Line by line editing is tedious to say the least!
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_ binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
What do I do now (besides informing this forum of the problem)?
I've encountered this type problem before with "Available" and was able to eliminate it by rerunning the updater repeatedly and manually corrected the corrupted line where it crashed. It seems that for this type problem I should be able to somehow reconstruct the essential configuration files from scratch. Line by line editing is tedious to say the least!