When entering, from a root terminal: apt-get update
It responds with: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ ----- original message ----- From: intrigeri <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:26:53 To: User support for Tails <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tails-support] Help: Synaptic crashes on startup (Tails 1.2.3) Hi, Shreela Singh wrote (15 Feb 2015 15:49:31 GMT) : > I have just upgraded to Tails 1.2.3. > When opening Synaptic, it issues this error message: > Quote > E: Encountered a section with no Package: header > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > E: _cache-&gt;open() failed, please report. Do you have APT lists persistence enabled? Looks like corrupted persistent files to me. What does this do in a Root Terminal? apt-get update And after running this command, can you start Synaptic again? _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support
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