scrollkeeper: Parser errors during apt-get update or dpkg configure -a

[Carl Karsten]

Binary package hint: scrollkeeper

(02:12:39 PM) CarlF1: fresh install, first apt-get upgrade is spewing out a ton of errors - like /var/lib/scrollkeeper/C/scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml:3542: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document <sect categorycode="KDE">

(02:15:16 PM) ubotu: Debian bug 455917 in scrollkeeper "scrollkeeper: Parser errors during apt-get update or dpkg configure -a" [Normal,Open] http://bugs.debian.org/455917

(suggested) WORKAROUND:
Rebuild the database:
sudo scrollkeeper-rebuilddb

[Gerrit (dabang)]

Same here. Did a fresh install of Gutsy yesterday, first dist-upgrade gave a lot of error messages like:
"/var/lib/scrollkeeper/fr/scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml:4568: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document <sect ...>"
I then did a "sudo scrollkeeper-rebuilddb" (found that solution here: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/127756/?p=1075179#1075179) which seems to have resolved the problem.

[hatch (drhatch)]

I had a similar experience using Synaptic Package Manager to add the two packages openoffice.org-dev and openoffice.org-dev-doc to a relatively new Ubuntu 7.10. First time, the /var/log/apt/term.log showed 1434 "parser error"s. After sudo scrollkeeper-rebuilddb, no errors.

[Richard Hansen (rhansen)]

Possibly related bugs: bug #158901, bug #181424, bug #186368

[Jurrit (jurrit)]

Happens with hardy beta, too. Appears to be a problem with install-doc in the postinst files of certain packages. See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204309

[Martin Ammermüller (martin-ammermueller)]

Confirming on Hardy Final

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Also in intrepid.

[Marc Horowitz (marc-mit)]

This happened to me today. I installed Hardy from a relatively old cd I had around. the initial update failed as described by others.

worse, it left a scrollkeeper-update process spinning sucking up CPU, which I had to kill by hand.

The workaround seemed to work, at least.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

scrollkeeper has been removed from the development release of Ubuntu and is not being maintained. Further bug fixing is extremely unlikely.