I ran into the same problem on my DELL laptop (64-bit Jaunty) after it "froze" last night and I had to force shutdown. In any case, I ran:
sudo update-apt-xapian-index and the problem appears to be fixed - Synaptic works once again. -- Synaptic won't start, report "Xapian::DatabaseCorruptError" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379568 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
