Re: Debian 5 update system broken

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote:

> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:13:02 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian 5 update system broken
> Resent-Date: Sun,  4 Dec 2011 12:15:49 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> > > With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark,
> > > in the taskbar), I got the following error.
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > Already reported:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650880
> >
> > All Debian Lenny users are affected, I guess (all my systems are). I
> > also added my comments there.
> >
> > It seems Debian team is already working on it :-)
>
> That was fast... is now solved. Good job!
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón

Ah.

But I have just tried again, and I get

"
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: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.'
"

I think this is the same error as before.

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