I've encountered the very same problem.

o...@hermes:~$ uname -a
Linux hermes 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 20:53:41 UTC 2009 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

My 32bit libs (some installed manually from i386.deb's, some build from
source):

o...@hermes:~$ dpkg -l | grep ia32*
ii  ia32-apt-get                               11ubuntu1                        
                          Apt-get and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly ia32-libs 
conver
ii  ia32-archive                               11ubuntu1                        
                          Create a local archive of converted i386 debs for 
amd64 
ii  ia32-libglib1.2ldbl                        1.2.10-19build1~11ubuntu1        
                          The GLib library of C routines
ii  ia32-libgtk1.2                             1.2.10-18.1build2~11ubuntu1      
                          The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
ii  ia32-libs                                  2.7ubuntu6.1                     
                          ia32 shared libraries for use on amd64 and ia64 
systems
ii  ia32-libs-tools                            11ubuntu1                        
                          Tools for converting i386 debs for amd64 and ia64
ii  ia32-libxml-dev                            1:1.8.17-14.1~11ubuntu1          
                          Development files for the GNOME XML library
ii  ia32-libxml1                               1:1.8.17-14.1~11ubuntu1          
                          GNOME XML library
ii  ia32-sun-java6-bin                         6-14-0ubuntu1.9.04               
                          Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (32-bit)

After deleting the above mentioned files 'apt-get update' stats fine, but ends 
with:
/usr/bin/apt-get: 101: cannot open 
/var/lib/apt/foreign/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages:
 No such file
/usr/bin/apt-get: 101: cannot open 
/var/lib/apt/foreign/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages:
 No such file
Ignoring archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_partner_source_Sources
/usr/bin/apt-get: 101: cannot open 
/var/lib/apt/foreign/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages:
 No such file
/usr/bin/apt-get: 101: cannot open 
/var/lib/apt/foreign/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages:
 No such file
Ignoring archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_source_Sources
Ignoring archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_restricted_source_Sources
mangle: ia32-libs-tools/mangle.cc:402: void mangle(Archlist&, Renamelist&): 
Assertion `buf_used > 1' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

This bug makes apt-get update unusable.

Oliver

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ia32 compat on ubuntu 64 9.04 breaks apt-get update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396205
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