search returns erroneous results

[JRanch]

Binary package hint: synaptic

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 and Synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10.

In both the search and quick search I type "trac" but no trac is returned in the results, however if I do not search and simply scroll through all the packages I can find it. I noticed in quick search that if I type "tra" then trac will be displayed in the results. As soon as I add the 'c' (e.g. "trac") the trac package disappears from the list. Also after adding the 'c' a duplicate entry for the trac-bzr package suddenly appears.

Two screens attached, one of trac appearing in the "tra" search and one of the duplicates in the "trac" search. Note the total number of packages returned in both searches being larger for the more specific search criteria, when it should be smaller.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
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
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Cruncher (ubuntu-wkresse)]

Marking as duplicate of 288797. Please try the workaround given there:
Close synaptic and:
sudo update-apt-xapian-index

If that did *not* solve your problem, please report back in this thread.
Note that quicksearch messes up your sort order. Click on the "Package" column marker to restore it.