Synaptic 0.63.1 crashes when using quicksearch

[Williams Christ]

Binary package hint: synaptic

1) Ubuntu 10.10 64Bit
2) synaptic 0.63.1ubuntu14
3) when I type in a few letters in quick search field I expect to see a list of search results
4) when I type in TWO letters in quick search field synaptic immediately disappears (crashes) with a "segmentation fault". No further information.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: synaptic 0.63.1ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 9 17:55:52 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic

[Chenf (chenlao-hotmail)]

Same problem here. It happens in my fresh installed Ubuntu 10.10 64bit.
And it was working in my previous Ubuntu 10.10 32bit (which was upgraded from previous versions).

[Chenf (chenlao-hotmail)]

It's due to xapian index.
The workaround is re-install "apt-xapian-index".

[Williams Christ (wchrist)]

I re-installed apt-xapian-index with:

$ sudo apt-get purge apt-xapian-index
$ sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index

But nothing happened: Synaptic crashes after typing third letter in the quick search box.

Any ideas?

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

I don't know why reinstalling apt-xapian-index would help.

Williams: which characters are you typing in the search box? Also, can you see if there are any errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file that could indicate what is wrong with synaptic?

[Williams Christ (wchrist)]

@Mathieu:
when first letter is "a" then I can type another letter and then "Crash".
when first letter is "ö" (German Umlaut) --> immediate crash

~/.xsession-errors file contains no information about this error (as I can see...).

Is there another way for debugging synaptic?

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

There is. Synaptic would be crashing and that should be caught by apport, however apport doesn't normally run on final releases.

Please follow the steps in the following wiki page to enable Apport, then reproduce the crash:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How%20to%20enable%20apport

You should be able to file a new bug for this crash directly from the apport prompts, then please report the bug number here so we can take a look at it. Thanks!

[Williams Christ (wchrist)]

I filed a bug #739237 with the help of apport.
Thank you.
Williams

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Marking as a duplicate of bug 739237 just filed with the actual crash and stacktrace.

[David Gettis (forliberty)]

The recent posts say that this is a duplicate of bug #739237, but the link to that bug doesn't work, and a search for that bug number turns up nothing. This is a rather serious bug that seems to affect a lot of people, if you see all the threads on the subject in the Ubuntu forums. On my system (Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit), not only does the quick search crash Synaptic, but I can't do ANY searches in the Ubuntu Software Center. Tried reinstalling Xapian and rebuilding the index, to no avail.