Xapian related Permission Error when Synaptic is run without root

[Siegfried Gevatter]

Binary package hint: synaptic

If I run Synaptic (0.62.5ubuntu1 on Jaunty) without root privilegies, just after starting it I get the following error in the terminal (without crash, though, the interface remains usable):

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 518, in <module>
    lockfd = os.open(XAPIANDBLOCK, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/update-lock'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 85, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL), 'w')
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/_usr_sbin_update-apt-xapian-index.1000.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 518, in <module>
    lockfd = os.open(XAPIANDBLOCK, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/update-lock'

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If you can't reproduce this on an up to date Jaunty installation, feel free to close the bug. My system is a bit messed up (upgrade from Intrepid didn't realy work good and I've already had other weird stuff happen), so this may only be affecting me.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

I can't reproduce it on Karmic or higher. Feel free to reopen if it's still an issue. Thanks.