Adept installer bug | Rebuild Xapian database

[cojack]

Rebuild Xapian database, Subprocess terminated with error 1

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Daniel Jelinski (dumbass-wp)]

On my machine I have traced this error to update-apt-xapian-index:

daniel@magda-laptop:~$ sudo update-apt-xapian-index
[sudo] password for daniel:
Reading Debtags database: done.
Reading pl translations from /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_universe_i18n_Translation-pl: done.
Reading pl translations from /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_multiverse_i18n_Translation-pl: done.
Reading pl translations from /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_i18n_Translation-pl...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 579, in <module>
    addon.obj.init(dict(values = values), progress)
  File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/translated-desc.py", line 83, in init
    self.indexers.append(Indexer(lang, file))
  File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/translated-desc.py", line 33, in __init__
    for pkg in deb822.Deb822.iter_paragraphs(open(file)):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/debian_bundle/deb822.py", line 247, in iter_paragraphs
    for key in parser.Section.keys()]
KeyError: 'Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - polecenia BSD\n The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and\n general replacement for lpr, lpd and the like. It supports the Internet\n Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for\n handling various document types.\n .\n This package provides the BSD commands for interacting with CUPS. It is\n provided separately to allow CUPS to coexist with other printing systems\n (to a small degree).\n .\n Nazwy "Common UNIX Printing System" i "CUPS"s\xc4\x85 znakami handlowymi firmy\n Easy Software Products (www.easysw.com) i odnosz\xc4\x85 si\xc4\x99 do oryginalnych\n pakiet\xc3\xb3w \xc5\xbar\xc3\xb3d\xc5\x82owych, z kt\xc3\xb3rych te pakiety zosta\xc5\x82y zbudowane.'

[Daniel Jelinski (dumbass-wp)]

okay, did some more tracing. It seems that error exists in file:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/i18n/Translation-pl
description of packages cups-bsd and cups-common is incorrect - second line of description does not start with space. After I corrected these descriptions, update-apt-xapian-index works fine, and so does adept.

Well, now I guess it's not xapian's bug, but I have no idea whose is it.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

This is caused by a bug in the Polish package descriptions Translation file (see bug 378075) and is not a bug in adept, apt-xapian-index, cups or synaptic, therefore marking as a duplicate of the mentioned bug. Please look at the other bug report for a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.