I was wondering if this Xapian can be removed safely? I use ubuntu 10.04 and many times i hear my CPU fan increase in speed--then i go into system monitor and i see Xapian is using alot of CPU resources---Everything else is sleeping.. I have 4 gigs of ram and 3.4 Gig CPU.
View 1 RepliesMy system is giving me a low space on filesystem warning. When I run disk analyser, it seems that /var/lib/apt-xapian-index is using 97% of it!! That's 8.9GB. I found another post which explained that each time this package runs it builds a new index set, and how to make it only update new packages. I made that change, but this doesn't release the 8.9GB that I guess can just be cleared down somehow...
I hope it can be cleared down anyway. How to clear all this down? I do want the package to remain running on the system, I just want to clean it up and release all that space. I'm on Lucid, I also saw the warning on Jaunty but it went away after upgrade to Lucid... now it's happening again, I can't ignore and hope it goes away for ever!
I upgraded an older system from jaunty 9.04 to karmic 9.10/ Following the upgrade, and about six hours of stable use, I ran the synaptic package manager, to pull in fvwm-crystal and a couple of other nits. Synaptic went into its usual tiring Rebuild Index while the resource hog update-apt-xapian ran away gleefully with the cpu pegged. for longer than I've ever seen it... about 15 minutes, and then the system crashed. and, I mean it crashed hard. I have not seen linux do this in years. Not just a seg fault, the whole machine just crashed (cpu, display, keyboard, the works). Restart and no problem, until I ran Synaptic (Rebuild Index. several minutes, crash).I played this game for a while; thinking the system might just might be overheating... let it cool down, and retried.same result. I tried running one last time, and this time pressed the reload (on Synaptic main panel) prior to the crash.it pulled in the repository updates and completed the Rebuild Index. (no crash)
I have run Synaptic several times since that. downloaded some goodies, and have had no further crashes (although, it does run Rebuild Index every time I start it.and update-apt-xapian pegs the cpu while this is going on. The question(s) I have are:
1) I was not aware that an apt these days can bring down the kernel (no panic, no logging, just down....) How is update-apt-xapian tied into the kernel that permits this vulnerability?
2) There appears (from searches) to be a problem with Synaptic or at least with xapian...?? What is going on with this resource pig..?
3) If I disable xapian and use sudo apt-get instead, instead of Synaptic, does this solve this resource problem?
4) Is there another forum area where this might be addressed besides general?
I am getting this errors when I check for new updates:
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W:Failed to fetch [URL] 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch [URL] 404 Not Found
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I downgraded to Compiz 8.6 with the GNOME 2 desktop using these instructions: [URL]. Today, however, my system wanted to do a "system upgrade", and now I get warning messages like this:
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emil@Emilubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
ubuntu-desktop depends on unity; however:
Package unity is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ubuntu-desktop
And when trying update manager:
Software index is broken
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It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first
Now I'm not sure it is good advice to do sudo apt-get install in force mode, since the problem seems to be - I'm guessing - that update manager is trying to install packages with are for the unity desktop and not my classic gnome+compiz 8.6 desktop.
I keep getting this error when trying to update but I know it is a bug and has been filed as a bug report.
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Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100429)/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100429)/dists/lucid/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
W: Failed to fetch [URL] Hash Sum mismatch E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Tried 3 different mirrors all have the same error. I assume this is the same issue we had a while back where one package was messing things up. Mirrors I my sources.list
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Does anyone know how to resolve this?
apt-get update
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W: Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/squeeze-backports/Release Unable to find expected entry iceweasel-4.0/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
When I check for updates, it just malfunctions and i get this hogwash: W: Failed to fetch [URL] Could not connect to packages.freecontrib.org:80 (34.52.53.34), connection timed out
W: Failed to fetch [URL] Unable to connect to packages.freecontrib.org http:
W: Failed to fetch [URL] Unable to connect to packages.freecontrib.org http:
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
i used when i open my computer everyday that it asks me for updates... but since 20 days till now it didn't ask me for updates like before .. and today .. i was surfing the web .. then the update manager appeared with a notification to update and asked me to hit the button (RUN THIS ACTION NOW) i did hit it .. but when i switched the detailed view ... all the packages were marked by these words : FAILED or HIT .. Then .. this error message appeared :
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i dont know what to do with this issue ... i am not professional in ubuntu ..
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W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
I have Ubuntu 10, Linux Mint 10, and Windows 7 installed on my machine. Every time there is a kernel update, grub adds the new operating system as a new item in the boot screen, but it does not remove the old variant. The result is that more an more choices appear as bootable, but most of them will never be used. Now, how, in grub V.2, does one remove old stanzas that one no longer needs? It seems to me that one merely has to go to the boot directory of the particular system one is in, remove the vmlinuz, etc. for the particular kernal version no longer needed, and then run grub update. This should give one a new cleaner screen on the next boot. Is this right?
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When updating from the last Debian Live image (Squeeze) to the current Debian testing, apt announces a lot of packages being not required:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
openoffice.org-draw libpcsclite1 libwpd8c2a usb-modeswitch gtk2-engines-smooth dnsmasq-base tomboy
libmono-security2.0-cil libgsf-1-common update-notifier-common libndesk-dbus1.0-cil libmtp8 libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
gnome-js-common pnm2ppa libavutil49 libhal-storage1 libmono-system2.0-cil update-notifier python-mako
openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-emailmerge network-manager-gnome openoffice.org-impress gdebi libgpod-common
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These include some important packages, like network-manager-gnome for example. Was it really intended to be removed? Without it, it's impossible to manage network connections from Gnome (only manual option of editing interfaces config is left). Is it a bug, or some incomplete intention? apt suggests to autoremove these packages. Should they all be retained, or only some of them, or it's supposed to be none? Removing some of them makes sense for me (like Epiphany for example), but some not at all.
what i did was, remove evolution mail from synaptic, what i wanted to do was just remove the indicator applet from the task bar. i read a bunch of bad stuff about removing evolution from synaptic vs just removing the applet.
im worried. did i break anything or put my security at risk. after, i used a command (older) (sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop)to install ubuntu desktop. because i thought that it would fix evolution. then i went to synaptic and installed a package called evolution. i rechecked evolution in applications menu. however, i notice that i have both a checkable evolution and two evolution icons. nothing 'seems' broken. im not sure if it ever was. and evolution calender pops up as normal, as does the the installed plain evolution. they both seems to be an exact copy of the other.
all i really wanted to do was remove the indicator applet. did i make a serious mistake. since ive had ubuntu, ive reformatted a lot because i was worried i made a mistake of some kind. however now im into the more "make a mistake and fix it stage' as im pretty happy with my current desktop and have worked hard to customize it. the command, sudo apt-get remove indicator-messages removed the mail icon. i still am worried that i broke something, or put my security at risk. also, now i have two mail icons. evolution mail and calendar, and another just called evolution.
I know a bunch of commands and I am comfortable using the terminal, I even set a powerpc server but I can't figure out how to remove epiphany on this new computer I'm setting up. I didn't install anything with tasksel. I installed gnome and xorg afterwards... I load it up and 'startx' just fine. then I check around for the programs that were installed. I lik'em gimp, lot's of utilities. gedit. anyway I find epiphany, which I have already established that I dislike, I immediately go to the root terminal (another nice program that comes with gnome) and type apt-get remove epiphany-browser-data the output says it will be deleting gnome... however I have researched and found these are simpy meta packages that don't really matter.... however under the section that states all the packages that will be removed by autoremove there is a huge list... I doubt these packages are safe to remove. how to remove epiphany without removing a huge amount of probably needed software
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently did a very stupid thing:
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sudo rm -f /var/log Now I cannot update or upgrade any package (I know there are updates waiting but Update Manager doesn't show any packages to download). How can I rebuild the index of packages and its versions in /var/log/apt ?
I recently restarted my Apache server to change the max upload from 5mb to 25mb. Once Apache restarted I tryed to go to my website via url www.website.com and a blank page with this source code:
<html>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
</body>
</html>
I also have two demo websites that I am running and when I go to there url's www.website.com/demosite apache will serve up the index.php
I didn't change anything but the max_upload in the apache2.conf and restarted.
Does anyone know a good script that would automatically generate an index.html file for an FTP server?
I just uploaded quite a bit of my music and files to my FTP server, and I really dont feel like having to go through and manually add links to a page so that I could browse them from anywhere.
I was looking in to using a script originally written for dropbox- here: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/share...lder-with.html
But it doesnt work on the remote server. I could only create the index for files residing on the drive here.
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View 2 Replies View Related"This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'."
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View 3 Replies View RelatedWell a bit earlier today I was trying to install the latest VLC following steps from this link:it instructed:Code:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-media-player-development/developmentsudo apt-get updateBut after the sudo apt-get updateI started getting errors at the end.. here is my log after running it:
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sendblink23@sendblink23-Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
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I noticed that Ubuntu takes some time in building the file search index. It seems to do it overnight while my PC is powered down )Is there a way to build the index by a command so that I could do searches whenever I wanted, specially immediately after installing a new program?
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gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=book.pdf 0*.pdf
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