Dear xmac - I am sorry , I did not realize you were waiting for a fix -
The following worked for me. I am a complete novice but have been able
to sort out all my problems by searching all the forums that google has
given me when I search for my problems.It can take a while finding the
answers but so far I have been lucky. I hope this works for you , I
deleted all the files as stated in Bug #393826 and all went well. after
you have run the update, look in /var/lib/apt/lists and it should have
all the files correctly (automatically) reinstated. Good luck and let me
know if all goes well. I will help as much as I can.
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Bug #393826 reported by Rascal999 on 2009-06-30 (Activity log)
Bug #393826:
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Update manager fails - "Encountered a section with no Package:
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Binary package hint: update-manager
Some users find themselves unable to update/run the package manager with
one of the following errors:
Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
This can occur when the update manager attempts to download package
lists, but receives a HTML document from their gateway.
If the package manager could determine the format of the package lists,
making sure it's not a HTML file, before trying to parse it, the manager
could rectify or, at least, inform the user that it is unable to
update/download because it is having trouble downloading the package
lists.
In order to resolve this issue, I removed all files
under /var/lib/apt/lists and ran 'sudo apt-get update', perhaps the
package manager could automate this process?
Thanks Ubuntu Team! :)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
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On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 01:14 +0000, xmac wrote:
> the strage thing was that after deleting the 4 files out of 60 files in the
> directory /var/lib/apt/lists
> they remained 49 !!!
> and now they are again 60 files in that directory !!!
> but, the update manager doesn't work :-(
>
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