Glancing at Martin Pitt's short note I think that this long term, ongoing issue is linked to character encoding and/or a file or library which is co-dependent to XML. The same cyclical error that came up in 7.X comes up in 8.04.1 now:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ ps axu|grep scrollk root 7313 0.0 0.1 1772 440 ? SN 20:33 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper root 7314 0.0 0.1 1772 448 ? SN 20:33 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-rebuilddb -q root 7321 13.5 5.4 16044 13824 ? RN 20:33 1:15 scrollkeeper-update -q -p /var/lib/scrollkeeper root 8585 41.4 3.9 12904 10184 pts/2 R+ 20:40 1:16 /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update -q nick 9632 0.0 0.3 3004 768 pts/0 R+ 20:43 0:00 grep scrollk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ sudo chmod 000 /usr/bin/scrollk* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ sudo kill 8585 I suppose "muting" the file permissions of only scrollkeeper-update will make my Add/Remove upgrades work in the interim. ~$ uname -r 2.6.24-19-generic -- scrollkeeper crashes during upgrade and causes maintainer script failures for various packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-games in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs