Greetings All! Hoping you have been enjoying the long weekend, etc. (especially the "etc."). I have a problem starting synaptic on a Debian Lenny. When it starts up, no packages are reported, and then a window opens with the error message: An error occurred The following details are provided: E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: _cache->open() failed, please report. When I click to close this window, synaptic then closes. I have had a look at the named file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ which is certainly there, and cannot work out how to fix it. Any suggestions? (And, in case I don't write again in time, Happy New Year). Ted. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> Date: 26-Dec-2011 Time: 18:41:15 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:49:26 -0000 (GMT) (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> allegedly wrote:
I have a problem starting synaptic on a Debian Lenny. When it starts up, no packages are reported, and then a window opens with the error message:
An error occurred The following details are provided:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
When I click to close this window, synaptic then closes. I have had a look at the named file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ which is certainly there, and cannot work out how to fix it.
Any suggestions?
Ted I occasionally get a similar problem with apt-cache (I use a small guru plug as a caching server) and I find that deleting the offending file on the cache forces it to be reloaded from the debian server and bob's your uncle. Might be worth a try. Mick (and merry christmas and happy new year to you and all other lists readers) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On 26-Dec-2011 mick wrote:
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:49:26 -0000 (GMT) (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> allegedly wrote:
I have a problem starting synaptic on a Debian Lenny. When it starts up, no packages are reported, and then a window opens with the error message:
An error occurred The following details are provided:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
When I click to close this window, synaptic then closes. I have had a look at the named file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ which is certainly there, and cannot work out how to fix it.
Any suggestions?
Ted
I occasionally get a similar problem with apt-cache (I use a small guru plug as a caching server) and I find that deleting the offending file on the cache forces it to be reloaded from the debian server and bob's your uncle.
Might be worth a try.
Mick
(and merry christmas and happy new year to you and all other lists readers)
Thanks Mick! However, I renamed the file and then tried running synaptic again, and it still produced exactly the same result. Sigh! Ted. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> Date: 26-Dec-2011 Time: 20:31:31 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
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