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  1. Bug #877627
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 877627

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MichaelE (michael-eitelwein) wrote :

I found a work-around but am not sure which side-effects this may have. Obvoiusly the following files were corrupted during upgrade to 10.10:

/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p
/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/values

cataloged_times.p had just binary data and values looked more like a README file. After I deleted both files, I was able to start

root@montreal:/var/lib/apt-xapian-index# update-apt-xapian-index -v

which rebuild both files. Software-center now also works again.

cataloged_times.p contains now text information and values actually looks like a data-base. Not sure what caused the corruptions during upgrade to 10.10, but obviously it happened to others as well.