Much appreciated, will do... Thankyou!
-Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Gauthier" <[email protected]> To: "mark valenti" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 5:36:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Bug 464681] Re: Could not initialize the package information Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, the problem you are experiencing does not seem to be a bug, but look like being caused by the system crashes. To resolve this problem you may run the following command: sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty- updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages and update the list of packages. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Could not initialize the package information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464681 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: 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:Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu .com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty-updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages (1), E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.' Was the message I got, this was prefaced by my system locking up intermittently, Ubuntu 9.04. Acer Aspire 8730-6951 2.4ghz p8600 4gb ddr2 9600 gt nvidia card -- Could not initialize the package information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
