Re: Problem with MergeList...

[Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 04:46:27PM +0000, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> I am having a problem with aptitude or apt-get in my Debian GNU/Hurd system:
> 
> # aptitude update 
> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian-ports.org_debian_dists_unreleased_main_binary-hurd-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian-ports.org_debian_dists_unreleased_main_binary-hurd-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [836B]
> Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main Translation-en [4091kB]
> Get:3 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release.gpg [836B]               
>                                                                               
>               
> Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ unreleased/main Translation-en        
>                                                                               
>               
> Get:4 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release [20.9kB]                 
>                                                                               
>               
> Err http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release                            
>                                                                               
>               
>   
> Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release [227kB]                       
>                                                                               
>               
> Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main hurd-i386 Packages [5334kB]      
>                                                                               
>               
> Fetched 9674kB in 4min 23s (36.7kB/s)                                         
>                                                                               
>               
> [ ERR] Reading package lists
> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian-ports.org_debian_dists_unreleased_main_binary-hurd-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (1073741859: Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another
> process using it?
> 
> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian-ports.org_debian_dists_unreleased_main_binary-hurd-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> # 
> 
> # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main 
> deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased main 
> # 
> 
> Any fix for this, please?.
> 
> Thanks very much, in advance. 
> 

Thanks very much for the replies.

I did:

# rm -v /var/lib/dpkg/*
# apt-get update

and the problem seems solved. All the files on the directory was rewritten.

Thank you.

Regards.

Jose.


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