Xapian discuss - Oct 2010 - cron.daily is tossing this strange message about xapian:

/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 581, in
<module>
     import os.path, re, imp, glob, xapian, textwrap, shutil, fcntl, 
errno, itertools, time
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xapian.py", line 6, in
<module>
     import _xapian
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/_xapian.so: undefined 
symbol: _ZNK6Xapian8Database19metadata_keys_beginERKSs

I did a search in /etc/apt like grep -R xapian *
and it didn't find anything active.  All references to xapian are 
commented out in sources.list.  The binary file trusted.gpg matches also.

I've recently upgraded to the latest xapian libraries.  Did that do 
something to python unexpectedly?

Thanks,
Jim.

On 9 Oct 2010, at 10:57, Jim wrote:
> /etc/cron.daily/apt:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 581, in
<module>
>    import os.path, re, imp, glob, xapian, textwrap, shutil, fcntl, errno,
itertools, time
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xapian.py", line 6, in
<module>
>    import _xapian
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/_xapian.so: undefined symbol:
_ZNK6Xapian8Database19metadata_keys_beginERKSs
> 
> I did a search in /etc/apt like grep -R xapian *
> and it didn't find anything active.  All references to xapian are
commented out in sources.list.  The binary file trusted.gpg matches also.
> 
> I've recently upgraded to the latest xapian libraries.  Did that do
something to python unexpectedly?

Sounds like you've upgraded the Xapian binaries (including removing the old
ones) without upgrading the python bindings (which apt uses for its internal
search index these days, I believe).

James

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