Scrollkeeper flaky

[sloe]

Hi all, I'm fairly new to the Ubuntu distro, but I am not a newbie by any means. Being as how this is my first real experience with a Linux GUI, though, I thought I would toss the question in here since it appears to be Gnome related.

Anyhow, I got Gusty installed as a VM to play with it and evaluate for replacing XP on my Dell C840. So far, I'm liking it, but every time I do something with the Synaptic Package Manager, the output log shows a LOT of these errors:

/var/lib/scrollkeeper/es/scrollkeeper_cl.xml:792: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
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^

It throws out so many errors that I can't read the log in the supplied terminal window.

My question is this: Is this normal behavior, or do I have a broken file somewhere that I can fix?

thanks!
-sloe

[sloe]

bump....

Ok, let me try this again. Does anyone else see this error, or is it just me?

[montezumax]

Yep, same issue here. I just finished installing Gutsy and then tried to uninstall the Ekiga software package and I started seeing scrollkeeper errors. Also, I opened a console and ran top and noticed that scrollkeeper-up was using 80%+ of the CPU.

I googled this item and several people mention it but I haven't seen any workarounds or solutions.

[feigenbaum]

I've had the same problem and solved it as follows:

I opened a console and became root to have the required permissions...

sudo su

(You have to enter your accounts password)

..., then I moved the broken file in my roots home directory.

mv /var/lib/scrollkeeper/C/scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml /root

(It is in your case another directory but I assume you can adapt it to your needs)

After that I build a new scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml by:

dpkg-reconfigure scrollkeeper

It took a while and after that I got the errors no more.

I hope I could help you with that.

[mverrilli]

I've gotten this error on a few package installs... do I need to go back and figure out which installs I did that showed this error and reinstall them? Will I have trouble one day if I don't?

What problems does this error really cause?

Thanks

I had the same barrel of laughs - used the fix above and it went away and haven't had a problem since then with it -

no idea what it's all about to be honest - didn't find much when I started searching for the error

[Hendrixski]

yep, had the same error
that dpkg-reconfigure command is a lifesaver, eh?

[piratesmack]

Thanks, this helped me out a lot.

I've been getting this error for who knows how long, but I've just been ignoring it

I can delete the old scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml right? you just moved it to your root directory for backup purposes right?

[CPesyna]

This didn't quite do it for me. I did everything up to

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure scrollkeeper

which didn't solve the problem. Instead, I tried

$ sudo scrollkeeper-rebuilddb

which did the trick.

[neurostu]

So I got the same error, I ran both:
dpkg-reconfigure scrollkeeper
&
scrollkeeper-rebiulddb and I get the same weird error.

root@stockton-mini:/home/slayton# dpkg-reconfigure scrollkeeper
Rebuilding the database. This may take some time.
///usr/share/gnome/help/blackjack/el/blackjack.xml:402: parser error : Entity 'Βοήθεια' not defined
                  <para><guimenuitem>Προτιμήσεις&Βοήθεια;</gui
                                                                           ^


root@stockton-mini:/home/slayton# scrollkeeper-rebuilddb 
scrollkeeper-update: warning: /usr/share/omf/workspace-switcher/workspace-switcher-de.omf overrides /usr/share/omf/gnome-panel/workspace-switcher-de.omf
scrollkeeper-update: warning: /usr/share/omf/window-list/window-list-de.omf overrides /usr/share/omf/gnome-panel/window-list-de.omf
///usr/share/gnome/help/blackjack/el/blackjack.xml:402: parser error : Entity 'Βοήθεια' not defined