I have just been bitten by this myself. After some poking around I realized what happened - I was connected to hotel's wireless which has one of these DNS redirect paywalls. The package manager tried to download the package lists before the connection was unauthorized and got copies of the paywall page which apt choked on.
There needs to be a check that a downloaded package list is actually a package list. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346386 Title: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
