[Neurodebian-users] Fatal Error in Update Manager (and Synaptic Package Manager)

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

what if you do in a terminal

sudo apt-get update

and then if any error/crash cut/paste output here?

possible workaround (if I see problem right) also could be to

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# it would complain that partial is a dir -- it is ok
sudo apt-get update

and then try starting update manager again

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Mona Sobhani wrote:

>    Hi all,
>    I am getting an error when I try to open the "update manager". I get "A
>    fatal error has been detected in update-manager. �Do you want to submit a
>    bug report?". I also get an error when I try to open the Synaptic Package
>    Manager: "E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E: problem with
>    MergeLists
>    /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_squeeze_updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages,
>    E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.; E:
>    _cache->open()failed,please report. �
>    I have never had any of these errors before (everything worked just fine)
>    - and i have not updated to a newer version or changed any settings, so
>    I'm wondering what's wrong. I'm running on a Sony Vaio with 64-bit Windows
>    7.�
>    �Any help?
>    Thanks!
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