On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > > I had done a little searching yesterday, but couldn't get any hits for > the exact error I was getting, so dismissed the solutions offered. > However, during more extended searching today, one suggestion kept > cropping up; > 'as root, run "update-apt-xapian-index"'. > > Although that was usually suggested in reference to the following > problem; 'Xapian::DatabaseModifiedError Aborted (core dumped)' > > I decided to run the command anyway. I then upgraded synaptic to > 0.83+nmu1, which now runs. >
Interesting. Good to know. > Your help with this problem is greatly appreciated. I would not have > solved this without your pushing me along. In the process, you've taught > me some useful lessons to help trace problems. For that, I'm doubly > grateful. Thanks for the kind words. I also learned about update-apt-xapian-index command. So it is mutually beneficial! raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog