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[Gordon Mckeown <971864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This issue seems to be due to a problem with the file /var/lib/apt-
xapian-index/cataloged_times.p -- perhaps it's an invalid value or some
file corruption that is resulting in the cPickle.load command failing to
deserialise the file.

In my case I simply renamed this file, re-ran the index process (sudo
/usr/sbin/update-xapian-index -u -f) and the issue appears to be
resolved. I'll need to leave it a few days to let this run through cron
in order to be completely sure.

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Title:
  ValueError: could not convert string to float: k_latency=0.850

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  
  /etc/cron.daily/apt:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 101, in <module>
      if not indexer.setupIndexing(force=opts.force, system=opts.pkgfile is None):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 513, in setupIndexing
      addon.obj.init(dict(values=self.values), self.progress)
    File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/cataloged_time.py", line 72, in init
      self._package_cataloged_time = cPickle.load(open(self._packages_cataloged_file))
  ValueError: could not convert string to float: k_latency=0.850

  This error is thrown from time to time from all versions of Ubuntu from 10.10 on upward:
  Ubuntu 10.10
  Ubuntu 11.04
  Ubuntu 11.10
  Ubuntu 12.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-virtual 3.0.22
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-virtual x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr  2 22:08:38 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-16 (199 days ago)

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