[DESKTOP] Muon broken... Doesn't find packages, then it does.

[Tahaan]

muon seems to be broken.

Sometimes it stops finding packages (search results empty). Then if I close and restart it, it finds them again....

I am able to reproduce this by:

Start muon
Search for something, select packages, and install
Wait for installation to complete
Search for another package (try 0ad, or the one you just installed) - whether installed or not, it finds nothing.

Update:
When the search box is cleared, there is clearly many packages available.

[dequire]

I can confirm this behavior.

[oshunluvr]

Seeing that here too. Seems if I close Muon, then run sudo update-apt-xapian-index it works again.

BTW, You may get this error when running the above:

Exception ignored in: <bound method ServerProgress.__del__ of <axi.indexer.ServerProgress object at 0x7fd5fef42240>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 306, in __del__
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

It's safe to ignore - the rebuild still happens,

[dequire]

Seeing that here too. Seems if I close Muon, then run sudo update-apt-xapian-index it works again.

BTW, You may get this error when running the above: It's safe to ignore - the rebuild still happens,

Running that command did not fix the issue for me, nor did waiting for the "rebuilding search index" message to appear at the bottom-right corner. Restarting the app did work, but only for the 1st search. After that, the problem comes back again.

Search for package, it appears:


Clear the search, try to search for something else, I get nothing


Even after this runs, still nothing


Also, running the command "sudo update-apt-xapian-index" does not work either.

I tried to file a bug but didn't because the version of muon in Neon is too new to be in the bug tracker. However, I just realized I could file this bug as a Neon bug, but that would seem potentially counter-productive.

[wizard10000]

Interestingly, Debian Unstable offered to remove muon and apt-xapian-index from my laptop this morning; I passed on the 'upgrade', but Sid has been offering to remove half of KDE for about the past week and a half. It looks like they got that resolved and things looked pretty normal except for offering to remove muon.

Guess I'll wait on the upgrade until apt stops offering to remove muon

[GreyGeek]

I can confirm this behavior.

Me too!