update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in <module>()

[Łukasz Jernaś]

Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index

Crashes always when I run synaptic (0.62.1ubuntu9) without superuser permissions. IMHO this shouldn't crash only end up reporting an error.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apt-xapian-index 0.15
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index -q
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index', '-q']
SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 511, in <module>
     lockfd = os.open(XAPIANDBLOCK, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT)
 OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/update-lock'
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner vboxusers video