update-apt-xapian-index crashed with DatabaseError in buildIndex()

[jerrylamos]

Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index

Fresh install from Maverick daily build 20100901 booted up and got the subject crash. Probably near Beta level.

Jerry

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apt-xapian-index 0.38ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 2 17:05:42 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index -q
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/sh
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index', '-q']
SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with DatabaseError in buildIndex()
UserGroups:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The crash looks the same as the one in bug 633003 it just has a different starting point.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 102, in <module>
    indexer.incrementalUpdate()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/axi/indexer.py", line 632, in incrementalUpdate
    return self.rebuild()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/axi/indexer.py", line 681, in rebuild
    self.buildIndex(dbdir, generator)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/axi/indexer.py", line 657, in buildIndex
    db.add_document(doc)
DatabaseError: Modifications failed (DatabaseOpeningError: Couldn't open base /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index.2/postlist.tmp to write: No such file or directory), and cannot set consistent table revision numbers: Couldn't reread base A

[Alexis Wilke (alexis-m2osw)]

I've got a similar error. Mine says ".../index.3/spelling.baseA" instead.

I do have a /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index.2/ folder, but no .../index.3/ folder.

An "ls -l /var/cache/" says:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-10-09 07:42 apt-xapian-index

which means the process needs to be run by root. As far as I know that would be the case so I'm not too sure why a mkdir() would fail here.

Just in case I tried to run the script manually and go no output what so ever:

root@my-server:~# /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index
root@my-server:~#

Not only that, the index.3 folder was not created.

[Alexis Wilke (alexis-m2osw)]

Just in case, I have 11.04

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug is still occuring as it is appearing on errors.ubuntu.com with version 0.44ubuntu5 of the package which exists in Precise.