Managed to fix software index.
1) get PID of offending daemon
sudo ps aux | grep -v grep | grep 'xsp.exe' | cut -c 10-15
2) manually kill offending daemon
3) sudo apt-get update
4) sudo apt-get install -f
Still don't understand why the automated update procedure got me into
the bad state
> It seems like stopping the old mono-xsp service fails.
> I could not reproduce it by installing it from gutsy and stopping it.
>
> Do you have manually edited the init script?
>
> Please attach your current /etc/init.d/mono-xsp.
>
I have not manually edited the init script for mono-xsp (or any
Public bug reported:
After upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy an error appears to have occurred with
upgrade of mono-xsp
that now has the 'software index' broken leaving me unable to Add/Remove
software.
Error message is...
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