The error did not recur when I updated to Lucy. The upgrade went very smoothly.
Thanks Dave --- On Thu, 7/22/10, Fabio Marconi <[email protected]> wrote: From: Fabio Marconi <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug 367656] Re: An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 3:52 PM Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ? Thanks in advance. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Incomplete -- An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367656 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I was trying to upgrade from 08.10 to 09.04 using upgrade manager, and got this error message: 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:Problem parsing dependency Replaces: E:Error occurred while processing perl-modules (NewVersion1), E:Error with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.' I now cannot open upgrade manager, as it will bring up this error message. When I press "close" on the dialog box that has the above mention, upgrade manager closes. When I try to open the Synaptic Package manager, I get this error message: An error occurred The following details are provided: E: Problem parsing dependency Replaces E: Error occurred while processing perl-modules (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: _cache->open() failed, please report. When I press the close button on the dialog box, the Synatpic Package manager closes. To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/367656/+subscribe -- An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367656 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
