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update-manager package

update-manager failes if you do not download the latest kernal

Bug #138146 reported by pas99 on 2007-09-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #886273: Poor handling of broken sources.list files. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

Basically I updated everything except for all of the new kernal related packages as they appeared to break my Nvidia drivers. However they all appeared to work except now it broken the updates:

Could not initialize the package information

A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Malformed 3rd word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing xserver-xorg-input-wacom (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2007-09-08:

Thanks for your bugreport.

This error sounds like 'apt' was not updated. Could you please check that apt is the latest version ?

Thanks,
Michael

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Incomplete

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pas99 (pstevens99) wrote on 2007-09-08:

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response, I think I have the latest version:

root@amd:~# apt-get -v
apt 0.6.46.4ubuntu10 for linux i386 compiled on Mar 14 2007 17:43:24
Supported modules:
*Ver: Standard .deb
*Pkg: Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree
S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree
Idx: Debian Source Index
Idx: Debian Package Index
Idx: Debian Translation Index
Idx: Debian dpkg status file

It matches the version:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/base/apt

Cheers, Paul.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2007-09-11:

Thanks for this additional information.

Could you please attach the file /var/lib/dpkg/status to this report?

Thanks,
Michael

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pas99 (pstevens99) wrote on 2007-09-12: