apport-gtk crashed with SystemError in open()

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Binary package hint: apport

I received an error using apt with a mention of a particular repo (ddebs.ubuntu.com). I'm not sure if the error means that I already have too many repos or packages' versions in the db, but disabling all the ddebs repos restored apt's functionality.

Apt was crashing aptitude, update-manager and probably more. I'll report the crash for apt-xapian-index and mark it duplicate of this one.

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ddebs.ubuntu.com_dists_jaunty-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ddebs.ubuntu.com_dists_jaunty-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ddebs.ubuntu.com_dists_jaunty-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
philsf@philsf-laptop:~/doutorado$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

ProblemType: Crash
ApportLog:

Architecture: i386
CrashReports:
 600:0:0:32720:2009-10-05 12:57:26.000000000 -0300:2009-10-05 12:57:27.000000000 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_apport-gtk.0.crash
 600:0:0:38030:2009-09-27 02:31:44.000000000 -0300:2009-09-27 02:31:45.000000000 -0300:/var/crash/couchdb.0.crash
 600:1001:1001:74029:2009-10-02 16:35:08.000000000 -0300:2009-10-02 16:35:09.000000000 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_evolution.1001.crash
 600:1001:1001:342945:2009-10-03 20:49:57.000000000 -0300:2009-10-03 20:49:58.000000000 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_lib_gvfs_gvfsd-trash.1001.crash
 600:0:0:8563:2009-10-05 02:31:53.000000000 -0300:2009-10-05 02:31:54.000000000 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_sbin_update-apt-xapian-index.0.crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: apport-gtk 1.0-0ubuntu5.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-gtk crashed with SystemError in open()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #362743, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Felipe Figueiredo (philsf)]

Bug #443254 is the bug in update-apt-xapian-index I mentioned in the description. I'll let launchpad retrace that debug info before marking it as a duplicate.