Could Not Initialize the Package Information - Malformed 1st word
Bug #788900 reported by
D.B. Pole
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #886273: Poor handling of broken sources.list files.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Text from the error message:
Could not initialize the package information
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:Malformed 1st word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing psmisc (UsePackage2), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
The above error occurred out of nowhere. I was not updating anything or installing any packages. Started up update-manager and there it is.
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| Robert Roth (evfool) wrote | #1 |
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #108601, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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