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appstream package

  1. Bug #1579712
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1579712

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John Wang (johnwang) wrote : Re: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string

@ximion: I missed that. After upgrading libappstream3 from -proposed, everything works fine. Thanks.

The reason I warned against removing the binary is because it's a bad practice in general, even though in this particular problem scenario the removed binary gets restored when its package is upgraded. Package-managed files should only be removed as a last resort when there isn't a better/safer workaround that won't potentially leave any part of the system in a broken or inconsistent state at any point in time. In this case, a safe workaround does exist, which is to disable appstream's apt config in the canonically-prescribed manner: appending ".disabled" to the config's filename.

So the complete procedure to fix this safely would be:

$ sudo mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50appstream /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50appstream.disabled
$ cd /tmp && mkdir asfix
$ cd asfix
$ wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/appstream_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
$ wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libappstream3_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
$ sudo mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50appstream.disabled /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50appstream