Thank you Leszek, I found a fix on the Ubuntu forums, as follows:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf sudo apt-get update The exclamation mark has gone now, so all back to normal. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Lubuntu-users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Lubuntu-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Lubuntu Team catch up with Community Council (Walter Lapchynski) > 2. Re: Lubuntu Team catch up with Community Council (Israel) > 3. Serious Problem Encountered (Steven Duckworth) > 4. Re: Serious Problem Encountered (Leszek Lesner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:35:10 -0700 > From: Walter Lapchynski <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > lubuntu user list <[email protected]> > Subject: Lubuntu Team catch up with Community Council > Message-ID: > <CAFe_ewhkVTDguKgwJJ2H9OJZ+894bwFK_B+fF=sJ= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Here's the logs of the catch up with the Community Council (note, this > includes the WHOLE meeting and starts with MATE): > * in [colorific form][1] but continues on past the end of the meeting > * in [meetingology text form][2], including meeting summaries and such > > If you guys have been paying attention here, there should be no surprises. > Some unique ideas that are perhaps on the horizon, though: > * it was suggested that the boss look into using Ubuntu Core Apps for LXQt > since they supposedly have removed the Unity dependency? more research > needs to be done > * it was suggested that we invite the Lubuntu Team to do a Community Q&A > session, which is a very visible Ubuntu On Air session. time is a bit rough > for me, but i'm going to see what I can do to make it happen. unless > someone else wants to head it up? Tuesday 1500 UTC. > > [1]: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/10/01/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t17:00 > [2]: > > http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2015/ubuntu-meeting.2015-10-01-17.01.moin.txt > > -- > @wxl | http://polka.bike > Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA > Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact > Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader > Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member > Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/attachments/20151001/cbc41c16/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 15:12:15 -0500 > From: Israel <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Lubuntu Team catch up with Community Council > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > This is great! > I had hoped LXQt would end up using some of the Ubuntu core apps, as > that will provide more incentive for us Lubuntu fans to perhaps make > Ubuntu apps (for Lubuntu)! > This gives me more incentive to learn Qt. > > P.S. for all you Education people, homeschoolers, and parents > GCompris is also using Qt in the newest version > > I am really looking forward to trying LXQt again, it has been a loooong > while since I had tested it last. I am sure it is even more exciting > that when it first came out! > > On 10/01/2015 01:35 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > Here's the logs of the catch up with the Community Council (note, this > > includes the WHOLE meeting and starts with MATE): > > * in [colorific form][1] but continues on past the end of the meeting > > * in [meetingology text form][2], including meeting summaries and such > > > > If you guys have been paying attention here, there should be no > > surprises. Some unique ideas that are perhaps on the horizon, though: > > * it was suggested that the boss look into using Ubuntu Core Apps for > > LXQt since they supposedly have removed the Unity dependency? more > > research needs to be done > > * it was suggested that we invite the Lubuntu Team to do a Community > > Q&A session, which is a very visible Ubuntu On Air session. time is a > > bit rough for me, but i'm going to see what I can do to make it > > happen. unless someone else wants to head it up? Tuesday 1500 UTC. > > > > [1]: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/10/01/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t17:00 > > [2]: > http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2015/ubuntu-meeting.2015-10-01-17.01.moin.txt > > > > -- > > @wxl | http://polka.bike > > Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA > > Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact > > Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader > > Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member > > Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer > > > > > > > -- > Regards > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/attachments/20151001/8b85e334/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:16:46 +0200 > From: Steven Duckworth <[email protected]> > To: lubuntu user list <[email protected]> > Subject: Serious Problem Encountered > Message-ID: > < > cajznep3sar_h4rrcuhxsrvc3nr+taxkpcumyyvtrzjabflv...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Please help! > > An exclamation mark suddenly appeared on my taskbar next to the network > indicator, and on clicking it I received the following: > > 'An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or > apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. > The error message was: 'Error: Opening the cache (E: encountered a section > with no Package: header, E: Problem with > Mergelist / var/lib/apt/lists... installed packages have unmet > dependencies.' > > Synaptic won't open, stating a similar error. > > Any idea how to recover the system? > > -- > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/attachments/20151002/b678aea7/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:21:31 +0200 > From: Leszek Lesner <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Serious Problem Encountered > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Hi, > > Am 02.10.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Steven Duckworth: > > Please help! > > > > An exclamation mark suddenly appeared on my taskbar next to the > > network indicator, and on clicking it I received the following: > > > > 'An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click > > menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. > > The error message was: 'Error: Opening the cache (E: encountered a > > section with no Package: header, E: Problem with > > Mergelist / var/lib/apt/lists... installed packages have unmet > > dependencies.' > > > > Synaptic won't open, stating a similar error. > > > > Any idea how to recover the system? > > > Try opening up a terminal and entering > sudo apt-get update > Does it fix it ? > If not try moving /renaming the file that is mentioned in the error > report (the /var/lib/apt/lists/ one) and executing > sudo apt-get update > again. > This should fix it. > > Basically the list locally stored informing which apps are available on > the repo is corrupted for some reason. > > Hope that helps :) > > Greetings > Leszek > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/attachments/20151002/80c3e313/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > > End of Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 2 > ******************************************** > --
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