sudo apt update errors

[Chris]

On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 11:49 -0500, Chris wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 08:30 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 15:07 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 at 15:02, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Running 'sudo apt update' I've been seeing these errors for the
> > > > past
> > > > few days:
> > > > 
> > > > AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were found:
> > > > Metadata
> > > > files have errors: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml
> > > I had that yesterday.
> > > 
> > > Just run:
> > > 
> > > sudo apt clean
> > > 
> > > That empties the cache.
> > > 
> > > Then refresh:
> > > 
> > > sudo apt update
> > > 
> > > And you should be good to go.
> > > 
> > Thanks Liam, that did the trick. Appreciate the quick reply
> And, I spoke too soon. Running 'sudo apt update' after I replied I
> again get:
> 
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Doing more Googling and without going into a whole lot more detail I'll
just say it's a known issue which apparently has just started sometime
this month.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2395753

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/appstream-glib/+bug/17
80442

Here's quite a few Google hits on "Metadata files have errors:
/var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml"

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=Metadata+files
+have+errors%3A+%2Fvar%2Fcache%2Fapp-info%2Fxmls%2Ffwupd.xml&ie=utf-
8&oe=utf-8

My conclusion now is that it's a known issue even as far back as the
early days of 16.04 and it appears a fix was released then something
has come along and broken it again.

Bottom line, I'm not going to worry about it any more as I get the
correct output the 2nd time I run 'sudo apt update'.
 
-- 
Chris
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