Hallo Gongqin,
Many thanks for your appreciated answer. This helped a lot. Problem has
been solved.
Kind regards
Hans
On 07.06.2012 10:51, Gongqin Chen wrote:
On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Brian Murray wrote:
The change that fixed this bug was modified in the following merge with
Debian:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
branches/ubuntu/precise/apt/precise/revision/1.5.24
which states:
* apt-pkg/acquire-item.{cc,h}:
- do not check for a Package tag in optional index targets
like the translations index
and we can see the code change at:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
branches/ubuntu/precise/apt/precise/revision/1.5.24/apt-pkg/acquire-
item.cc#apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc
However it is not clear to me how optional and non-optional targets are
defined and I wonder if these are not misdefined somehow.
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Title:
[MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with Encountered a
section with no Package: header
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “apt” source package in Natty:
Fix Released
Status in “apt” package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: adept-updater
Pertinent data printed when attempting to run Updater as follows:
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_intrepid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The
package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
WORKAROUND:
Remove problematic files from /var/lib/apt/lists/ and rerun apt-get
update.
In the event that one is connected to a network with a proxy server
that returns html pages (like a web page requesting you to login) and
not package list files. Those html files will get downloaded to
/var/lib/apt/lists/ and prevent someone from using a package manager
until the problem html pages are removed.
TEST CASE:
1) Ensure /etc/apt/sources.list points to archive.ubuntu.com
2) Setup proxy server to block access to archive.ubuntu.com and return
something like http://people.canonical.com/~brian/tmp/not-packages.html
3) Execute 'sudo apt-get update' in a terminal
4) Observe the following:
'E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
5) Try 'apt-cache policy apt' and be sad that it doesn't work
6) run 'sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages' to clear the error.
With the proposed package installed repeat steps 1 to 3.
4) Observe the following:
''Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease [189 B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease
E: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease: The following
signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2'
5) Try 'apt-cache policy apt' and be happy that it works
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