Meng, I had the same problem - your solution seemed to have solved it,
many thanks for posting it. Haven't tried on battery power yet, but I
haven't had a single crash since applying the trick and running on AC
power. Also, I have an external monitor plugged it - but before the fix,
I would
I ran into the same problem on my DELL laptop (64-bit Jaunty) after it
froze last night and I had to force shutdown. In any case, I ran:
sudo update-apt-xapian-index
and the problem appears to be fixed - Synaptic works once again.
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Synaptic won't start, report Xapian::DatabaseCorruptError
