I hit this problem while upgrading from Kubuntu 13.10 to 14.04. I have an old laptop with 512 MiB RAM and the updating process crawled to a halt.
I just created a fake package to get rid of apt-xapian-index without having to edit system configuration files, see here: https://github.com/rdiez/Tools/tree/master/FakeReplacementForAptXapianIndex -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655831 Title: update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ac100/+bug/655831/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
