Here's something to patch this until it's fixed upstream. This will add an hourly cron job that updates the timestamp on the two problematic files. Doing this prevents apt-index-watcher from spinning on my machine, and from the comments in this bug it works for others too.
Just paste the following into a terminal: sudo uudecode <<'EOM' begin 755 /etc/cron.hourly/apt-index-watcher-bug M([EMAIL PROTECTED])I;B]S:`H*=&]U8V@@+W9A<B]C86-H92]A<'0M:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $<B\J"@`` ` end EOM To uninstall: sudo rm /etc/cron.hourly/apt-index-watcher-bug -- apt-index-watcher uses way too much system ressources https://launchpad.net/bugs/64531 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
