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

[Mona Sobhani]

Thank you! It appears to have worked, although another error message popped
up at the end of the updates - but this was after a message appeared saying
that the updates had been applied successfully, so I think it's okay!
Thank you for the help!

- Mona

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian at onerussian.com>wrote:

> 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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