/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index:ValueError:<module>:setupIndexing:init:__init__:parse:parse

[Evan]

https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index:ValueError:<module>:setupIndexing:init:__init__:parse:parse

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

I think previous versions of pyxdg had unintentionally masked this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 101, in <module>
    if not indexer.setupIndexing(force=opts.force, system=opts.pkgfile is None):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 513, in setupIndexing
    addon.obj.init(dict(values=self.values), self.progress)
  File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/app-install.py", line 145, in init
    entry = DesktopEntry(os.path.join(APPINSTALLDIR, f))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xdg/DesktopEntry.py", line 33, in __init__
    self.parse(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xdg/DesktopEntry.py", line 42, in parse
    IniFile.parse(self, file, ["Desktop Entry", "KDE Desktop Entry"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xdg/IniFile.py", line 73, in parse
    key, value = line.split("=", 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack