update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in getmtime()

[Alexander Dreyzen]

Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index

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# 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

$ apt-cache policy apt-xapian-index
apt-xapian-index:
  Installed: 0.15
  Candidate: 0.15
  Version table:
 *** 0.15 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: apt-xapian-index 0.15
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index -q
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index', '-q']
SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in getmtime()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Daniel Santibáñez Polanco (dansanti)]

affect to karmic too

[Hellsgator (hellsgate)]

running Karmic. same bug.

[Vlad Brovko (brovka75)]

affect to karmic too

[Richard Cavell (richardcavell)]

I also have this bug on 64-bit Karmic alpha 4.

[GeorgeVita (8-launchpad-mhnyma-com)]

Appeared on Karmic Alpha 4 + latest updates when the system was trying to upload a 'large' amount of data for 'bug': https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/367080

I am using 3G internet.

[SolidSteel144 (milesrdz)]

Karmic Alpha 6... :(

[Possumus (possumus)]

Karmic Alpha 6 here too

[Th. Sievers (th-sievers)]

9.10 beta amd64

[Giovanni Battista Salvietti (giovannibattista-salvietti)]

9.10 beta amd64 too

[Fatih Bostancı (fbostanci)]

9.10 beta i386 ..

[Th. Sievers (th-sievers)]

9.10 beta amd64

[aquarius (tsolakg)]

?

[dotnokato (dotnokato)]

9.10 beta AMD64 too.

[Pete MacMillin (pete-macmillin)]

9.10 beta amd64 again. Not sure what caused this. I was just using Synaptic to clear out some old kernels... don't know...

[ova (cionca.ovidiu)]

9.10 beta i386

[Andros83 (mail-ceandrea)]

9.10 beta 64bit too.

[sultan (gerard-snoek)]

9.10 beta i386

[Kevin Brightwell (nava2)]

9.10 beta, x64.

Apport tried to report the same bug.

[N/A (unknownusertodelete)]

9.10 rc i386

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Is an apport bug, should be enough information here, marking Triaged.

[nick TS (nick-thewlis-smith)]

just trying to sort out problem with pulseaudio and browsing synaptic mgr

[Caue Rego (caue-rego)]

I have no idea why the little icon appeared to me, on my Karmic live-cd.

But just after it crashed, I decided to try and run this same command using sudo, and it seems like it worked:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo update-apt-xapian-index
Rebuilding Xapian index: done.

[Thespian (jesse-mundis)]

problem seen on aspire netbook running ubuntu netbook remix off a flash drive.

[dino99 (9d9)]

got this error on Lucid a2 updated:

have made in console: sudo apt-get install -f
(returned a warning about a known issue with wine 1.1.36)
then give this problem.

[Roger Ward (rogerw)]

also on 64bit Ubuntu 10.4 (dev/alpha branch)

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

happens under latest lucid 32bit too.

[Anthony Hook (anthonyhook)]

Yeah, I just had this happen when I launched Synaptic on 10.04.

[Roy (rdstrac)]

Also on Intel Quad running 10.04 Alpha 3 during system update.

[bancaldo (bancaldo-gmail)]

got this error on Lucid a3

[Oytun (oytunistrator)]

got this error on ubuntu 10.04 alpha x86 lucid

[timbuntu-nl (lauchpad-timbuntu)]

got this error using ubuntu-10.04-beta1-dvd-amd64.iso

[dino99 (9d9)]

got again a crash into /var/crash

got these outputs into .xsession-errors immediatly after i installed the Lucid B1 updates, (nothing logged before ):

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: « net usershare » a retourné l'erreur 255 : net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 631, in <module>
    addons = readPlugins(PLUGINDIR, progress)
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 278, in readPlugins
    addon = Addon(file)
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 246, in __init__
    self.info = self.obj.info()
  File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/apttags.py", line 29, in info
    return dict(timestamp = os.path.getmtime(file))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py", line 54, in getmtime
    return os.stat(filename).st_mtime
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin'
checking for valid crashreport now
update-apt-xapian-index

[dino99 (9d9)]

new wine was installed (updated) too.

[Mzombira (mzombira)]

that affect 10.4 too :)

[annerswat (werbung-annerswat)]

I also have this bug on 64-bit Karmic Beta 1.

[Franck (alci)]

Another me too on Lucid beta (amd64). Happens when I open synpatic and click on 'Update'

[PJO (lexicographer)]

+1 on Lucid beta 1 (Intel).

May have been coincidental but I had just adjusted the size of the left hand panel;

The crash report is as per #33 up to OSError, then with

 OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin'

"sudo update-apt-xapian-index"

yielded a message about a deprecated object, then

"The index /var/lib/apt-xapian-index is up to date"

[msieloff (m-sieloff-web)]

Me too on lucid beta 1.

[goevolve (goevolve336)]

Another on Lucid Beta 1 x86 - updating synaptic

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Upgrading from Lucid.

[KrzysiekT (cytruss-xl)]

Same here -Maverick beta ,using Synaptic

[Danny Stieben (dmaxel)]

Got this while on Maverick beta, using synaptic

[Xvani (fredrile+launchpad)]

WHY is this declined for Maverick? Clearly seems to be a problem.
I got it using software center, Maverick Beta.

[Anita (anita90)]

Maverick beta, using Synaptic

[BenginM (sary)]

This effect me on Maverick beta.

[PatrickSCarrroll (patrickscarroll-hotmail)]

This fix has been declined for Maverick? (re: Declined for Maverick by Sebastien Bacher)

This bug is occurring with the latest Maverick Beta!

[bnet (brian-nettles)]

Error on Maverick when using software center.

$ apt-cache policy apt-xapian-index
apt-xapian-index:
  Installed: 0.38ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.38ubuntu1

[dhanhurley (dhanhurley)]

ACER ASPIRE 9300 ....AMD Turion(TM) X2 Mobile Technology TL-50..........
I think it was installing MYTHTV that caused the problem.
Have UNINSTALLED MYTHTV.....i do not think this computer can handle much MULTIMEDIA
I ran the following and got a thumbs-up.......
# update-apt-xapian-index
The index /var/lib/apt-xapian-index is up to date
Ciao....Dhan

[dhanhurley (dhanhurley)]

Excuse me,forgot,
ACER ASPIRE 9300 ....AMD Turion(TM) X2 Mobile Technology TL-50........UBUNTU 10.10 MAVERICK

[MaKo (uwimbux)]

Error al abrir synaptics para instalar usb-modeswitch ubuntu 10.10 beta

[Jonathan Yip (helkaluin)]

Error occurs when using Synaptic or Software Center, but seemingly not if using apt-get.

Maverick Beta. Popcon is enabled.

[stefaca (stefaca)]

mavercik beta. bug when use update manager, sometimes synaptic

[Erik Paixao (erikpaixao18-gmail)]

mavercik beta. bug when use update manager, sometimes synaptic²

[Ian Ross (iankross)]

Meerkat Alpha 3
Doing updates

[Tappy (robintapp)]

Just got this one in meerkat

[stefaca (stefaca)]

asus 1201n, ion chip set, intel atom n330 cpu, MM10.10beta

[dino99 (9d9)]

finally, purging / reinstalling all the related installed xapian packages, have fixed this issue on my end: updated i386 maverick with apt-xapian-index 0.38ubuntu1

i've to say that a bunch of python files have been purged/reinstalled too, so i cant say if this issue is related to one of the python file or not. (might be old / wrong conf / settings to blame)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I see a few bits that Martin missed in his earlier change. I'll have another go at this.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I have a fix. Just checking with Enrico on the right version numbering for getting this into Debian.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt-xapian-index - 0.39

---------------
apt-xapian-index (0.39) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Enrico Zini ]
  * Fixed tests on Ubuntu (Thanks Michael Vogt for the patch)
  * Added cataloged-times plugin by Michael Vogt
  * Handle multiple invocations of indexer via dbus
  * Described axi-cache in the package description

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Fix more crashes when the Dir::Cache::pkgcache file doesn't exist, along
    the same lines as Martin Pitt's change in 0.38 (LP: #267330).
  * Use the new MSetItem attribute API, introduced in Xapian 1.0.0, rather
    than the sequence API which was removed in 1.1.0 (closes: #595916).
  * Create the XDG cache directory with appropriate permissions if it
    doesn't exist.
  * Set better NAME sections in manual pages.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:15:25 +0000

[T Kortehisto (kortehisto)]

Just had this bug after I upgraded all the packages. Using 10.10 beta 64 bit.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

@T Kortehisto: The fix reached the archive after you posted your message, so you can't possibly have installed it. Wait for apt-xapian-index 0.39 to be available on your mirror and then try again.

[latinhawwk (latinhawk)]

I just installed the fix and it crashed trying to update.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:19:08PM -0000, latinhawwk wrote:
> I just installed the fix and it crashed trying to update.

Please provide all the details you have of this crash. (It may be some
different bug.)

[latinhawwk (latinhawk)]

  On 09/10/2010 11:38 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:19:08PM -0000, latinhawwk wrote:
>> I just installed the fix and it crashed trying to update.
> Please provide all the details you have of this crash. (It may be some
> different bug.)
>
I went through the update in Synaptic. It downloaded the new version.
When it was installing it all seemed fine. When I closed Synaptic an
error bubble was on the status bar saying that it had crashed.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:51:11PM -0000, latinhawwk wrote:
> I went through the update in Synaptic. It downloaded the new version.
> When it was installing it all seemed fine. When I closed Synaptic an
> error bubble was on the status bar saying that it had crashed.

That error bubble should offer you the opportunity to file a bug. Can
you please do so? If you've already dismissed it, there should still be
a .crash file for update-apt-xapian-index in /var/crash; you can run:

  ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_usr_sbin_update-apt-xapian-index.0.crash

(replace this with whatever the exact file name is) to file a bug, and
we can then determine whether that has anything to do with this bug.

[latinhawwk (latinhawk)]

  On 09/10/2010 12:49 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:51:11PM -0000, latinhawwk wrote:
>> I went through the update in Synaptic. It downloaded the new version.
>> When it was installing it all seemed fine. When I closed Synaptic an
>> error bubble was on the status bar saying that it had crashed.
> That error bubble should offer you the opportunity to file a bug. Can
> you please do so? If you've already dismissed it, there should still be
> a .crash file for update-apt-xapian-index in /var/crash; you can run:
>
> ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_usr_sbin_update-apt-xapian-index.0.crash
>
> (replace this with whatever the exact file name is) to file a bug, and
> we can then determine whether that has anything to do with this bug.
>
I just filed a new bug report on this.

[VF (fviktor)]

It also happens on Ubuntu 10.10 beta (i386). It happened after rebooting, logging in to the upgraded system and starting up Synaptic.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Viktor: Yes, I uploaded the fix some days after the Ubuntu 10.10 beta
was released. (There's no need for further comments pointing out that
this is broken in the beta; if you encounter this problem, try
upgrading.)

[Bernd Laser (bernd-laser)]

I did upgrade today, but the bug is still there.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:17:35PM -0000, Bernd Laser wrote:
> I did upgrade today, but the bug is still there.

Are you absolutely sure that it's exactly the same bug? There are other
ways in which update-apt-xapian-index can fail, and not all of them are
this bug. You should have a crash file - I provided instructions for
filing it a few comments back.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Noticed apport crash report in upper right hand side of the screen, clicked and was dup of this bug.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy apt-xapian-index
apt-xapian-index:
  Installed: 0.39
  Candidate: 0.39
  Version table:
 *** 0.39 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 07:32:11PM -0000, rusivi wrote:
> Noticed apport crash report in upper right hand side of the screen,
> clicked and was dup of this bug.

The dup detector is not being very helpful here - I need your actual
crash file, as I suspect it will be slightly different. Please attach
your crash file to this bug. You should find it in
/var/crash/_usr_sbin_update-apt-xapian-index.0.crash, or something very
similar. You may need to use root privileges to read it.

[bnet (brian-nettles)]

Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in getmtime()
Crash file attached

brian@DEXTER:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10
brian@DEXTER:~$ apt-cache policy apt-xapian-index
apt-xapian-index:
  Installed: 0.39
  Candidate: 0.39
  Version table:
 *** 0.39 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
brian@DEXTER:~$ uname -a
Linux DEXTER 2.6.35-20-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 3 14:49:14 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Colin Watson:

Attached is the requested file.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

@bnet: Thanks! The remainder of this isn't an apt-xapian-index bug -
it's a bug caused by an apt-xapian-index *plugin* shipped by
software-center. I've opened a new task and will provide a branch
fixing this shortly.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 09:10:28PM -0000, rusivi1 wrote:
> Attached is the requested file.

Thanks. Your crash is different from bnet's (since there are two buggy
plugins involved, both in software-center), but it will also be fixed by
the branch I just submitted there.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Thanks Colin! Your branch is merged to trunk.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

software-center (2.1.19) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Gary Lasker ]
  * softwarecenter/view/widgets/mkit.py:
    - fix crash during action_bar refresh (LP: #635044)
  * softwarecenter/backend/channel.py:
    - always display the partner channel, even if its
      source is not enabled (LP: #635003)
  * softwarecenter/db/application.py,
    softwarecenter/db/database.py,
    softwarecenter/view/appview.py,
    softwarecenter/view/softwarepane.py:
    - make StoreDatabase.get_appname return None if the
      name is not defined in the xapian doc
    - consolidate code to generate application name and
      summary for display in the UI to a single place
    - wire applist, appdetails and the navigation bar
      to use it (LP: #636004)

  [ Kiwinote ]
  * data/software-center.menu.in:
    - fix typo to now use applications-ocaml icon, thanks mpt (LP: #635732)
  * softwarecenter/backend/channel.py:
    - allow 'for purchase' to have an icon in non-English locales (LP: #636242)
  * softwarecenter/db/application.py:
    - try to open deb file, except on any sort of error (LP: #633379)
    - simplify when we use which warnings for deb files (LP: #635015)
    - reload pkg cache object and xapian doc if it turns out that the pkgname
      of a deb file is different than what we guessed on basis of the file name
  * softwarecenter/utils.py:
    - fix crash when desktop_file is None (LP: #635596)
  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - use the display name for app entry in 'where is it' (LP: #635464)
    - restore correct padding in addons status bar (LP: #625230)
  * minor tweaks to lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/title-summary-fixes
    - use installed state in status bar for reinstallable debs (LP: #635015)

  [ Matthew Paul Thomas ]
  * data/software-center.menu.in:
    - fix incorrect Category value in the xml for the Debugging
      subcategory of Developer Tools (LP: #538911)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Fix update-apt-xapian-index crashes when the Dir::Cache::pkgcache file
    doesn't exist (LP: #267330).

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * softwarecenter/backend/aptd.py:
    - fix "reload()" in enable_channel() and only update the particular
      channel file
  * softwarecenter/distro/Ubuntu.py:
    - fix crash for icons loaded from extras.ubuntu.com
  * merged lp:~mmcg069/software-center/Bug635375 (LP: #635375)
  * merged lp:~mmcg069/software-center/tiny-pathbar-tweak
  * merged lp:~mmcg069/software-center/Bug625443 (LP: #625443)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:16:47 +0200