** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Status: Incomplete = Triaged
** Summary changed:
- startup initiating package unresolvable problem
+ startup fails if a indexfile is broken (e.g. with Depends: \n in
Packages.gz)
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startup fails if a indexfile is
would i find that file by running down this pathway?
/var/lib/apt/lists/repoubuntusoftware
.info_dists_harty_all_binary-i386_Packages
never done this before
willing to learn
mh
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Michael Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Thanks for your bugreport.
E:Error occurred
Thanks for your bugreport.
E:Error occurred while processing btnx (NewVersion1), E:Problem with
MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/repoubuntusoftware
.info_dists_harty_all_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or
status file could not be parsed or opened.'
This line is the actual problem, could
after running software sources from the system pulldown in Gnome, I was
able to decern I had a bad repository. Unchecking the third party
source as a repository corrected the issued. I would think a bad
repository would be handled and skipped. But I guess in the case of
