So I have been using teams regularly on Ubuntu 20.04. Things that I noticed were:
- Mid-call crashes
- Worst call quality (I could hear the electrons around the atoms)
- Not being able to find the buttons to control screen (expecting in future)
- Caused a Mergelist corruption when running apt-get update
TL;DR; I had to UNINSTALL MICROSOFT TEAMS. And I’ll suggest not using teams until it is no longer in Preview
BUT!
This is not why I am posting this. The reason I am posting this is because it messed with my Ubuntu 20.04 system.
I saw a red warning symbol in my notification that said that I was not able to update my system.
apt-get update could not work. Upon inspection, I found this:
codeonion@codeonion-ThinkPad-P50:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for codeonion: Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:5 http://pk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:6 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease Hit:7 http://pk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease Hit:8 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:9 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease Hit:10 http://pk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease Hit:11 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/18.04/mssql-server-2019 bionic InRelease Hit:12 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/18.04/prod bionic InRelease Hit:13 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/19.10/prod eoan InRelease Hit:14 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable InRelease Hit:15 https://dbeaver.io/debs/dbeaver-ce InRelease Reading package lists... Error! E: Malformed Description-md5 line; doesn't have the required length (32 != 33) '"129fb0c:f9aeae8e8d848457773b5c4e' E: Malformed Description-md5 line; doesn't have the required length (32 != 33) '"129fb0c:f9aeae8e8d848457773b5c4e' E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/pk.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal_universe_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Mergelist problem
E: Malformed Description-md5 line; doesn't have the required length (32 != 33) '"129fb0c:f9aeae8e8d848457773b5c4e' E: Malformed Description-md5 line; doesn't have the required length (32 != 33) '"129fb0c:f9aeae8e8d848457773b5c4e' E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/pk.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal_universe_i18n_Translation-en
The following had to be done to fix this
sudo rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
sudo apt-get update
It worked partially but apt-get update still gave me a Mergelist problem.
So I had to UNINSTALL MICROSOFT TEAMS
Then, when I ran
sudo rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
sudo apt-get update
The system got back on its feet, the warning notification disappeared. Looks like until it is in preview, I’ll stick to using Teams on the web only.
Special Thanks to this Gist. @d2s, you are a lifesaver.