[Touch-packages] [Bug 971864] Re: ValueError: could not convert string to float: k_latency=0.850

2014-08-22 Thread Gordon Mckeown
Checking through the "bad" file, the line that caused the problem for me was in this section: sS'gobi-loader:i386' p27470 F1381297656/941432 For some reason, there was a forward slash instead of a decimal point. In case it helps someone else, the following code was used to find the bad value: #!

[Touch-packages] [Bug 971864] Re: ValueError: could not convert string to float: k_latency=0.850

2014-08-22 Thread Gordon Mckeown
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