Ubuntu
apt package

failed to initialise when repositories have broken information

Bug #283541 reported by Chris Woodward
110
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

error message:
'E:Problem parsing dependency Depends, E:Error occurred while processing btnx (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/repoubuntusoftware.info_dists_harty_all_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

ubuntu 8.04.1

both update manager and apt-get fail to initialise

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Chris Woodward (chrisww-iinet) wrote :
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Here is what is causing the error:

Package: btnx
Version: 0.4.4-1
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Olli Salonen <email address hidden>
Installed-Size: 108
Depends:
Filename: ./btnx_0.4.4-1_i386.deb
Size: 17130
MD5sum: 6fb749892407120459f3ce57d750dcac
Section: checkinstall
Priority: extra
Description: A daemon for routing mouse button events as keyboard and mouse button combos

The depends line there is empty, that makes it crash.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Please talk to the repository providing those packages and ask them to generate a valid Packages file (and how they generated this one).

Changed in update-manager:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Michael - There seemed to be 3 separate groups of bug reports all describing the same issue here, so I've consolidated them all in to this bug report.

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Cowpoke (jeremy-bad) wrote :

...returned to my Server after a bit of neglect (a week and a half). I had exactly the same error reported up top. I moved /var/lib/apt/lists/repoubuntusoftware.info_dists_harty_all_binary-i386_Packages to its parent directory:
sudo cp /var/lib/apt/lists/repoubuntusoftware.info_dists_harty_all_binary-i386_Packages ..
and then refreshed my update manager. Worked fine!

I am not sure what functionality I may be surpassing by not picking up /var/lib/apt/lists/repoubuntusoftware.info_dists_harty_all_binary-i386_Packages (some mouse button events...?); nevertheless, until that situ. gets cleaned up, I don't want to surpass using my server.

Ride on...
Cowpoke

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