Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780520
Title:
fwupd fails to refresh because of badly encoded data
Status in appstream-glib package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I see the following in my logs several times a day:
Jul 5 20:35:45 hostname fwupd[14510]: (fwupd:14510): Fu-WARNING **:
FuMain: failed to load AppStream data: Failed to parse
/var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml file: Erreur à la ligne 265 : L’entité ne
se termine pas par un point-virgule ; vous avez probablement
utilisé une esperluette sans intention d’écrire une entité — échappez
l’esperluette avec &
Jul 5 20:36:07 hostname dbus[1044]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.fwupd': timed out
and I get the following message when I run `apt update`:
Réception de:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main
amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [67,7 kB]
Réception de:19 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main
DEP-11 64x64 Icons [68,0 kB]
Réception de:20 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe
amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [107 kB]
Réception de:21 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe
DEP-11 64x64 Icons [142 kB]
1 841 ko réceptionnés en 1s (1 128 ko/s)
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to
errors.
According to the fwupd author, this is a problem ib appstream-glib and
the fix should be backported in 16.04:
https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/issues/565#issuecomment-402541089
There are also a number of reports on ask.ubuntu.com:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1051536/appstreamcli-appstream-system-cache-was-updated-but-problems-were-found-metad?noredirect=1&lq=1
https://askubuntu.com/questions/943463/library-corruption-error-during-apt-get-update
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