I too have experienced this error from synaptic after a system freeze while unattended; the corruption was indeed corrected by running 'update-apt-xapian-index'.
Rather than merely documenting that this corruption can happen and the resolution, perhaps the upshot of this bug report should be a request that synaptic handle this situation more gracefully, such as by running 'update-apt-xapian-index' automatically? At a minimum, the error message could provide more information, such as suggesting rebuilding the index? The latter should probably be reported by a GUI window, rather than stdout/err, since many people will start synaptic through a GUI launcher, rather than from a terminal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379568 Title: Synaptic won't start, report "Xapian::DatabaseCorruptError" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/379568/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
