Wednesday, May 30, 2018

16.04 - appstreamcli: AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were found: Metadata files have errors: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml

How do I get rid of this?




$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
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Hit:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge/ubuntu xenial InRelease
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AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were found: Metadata files have errors: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml
Reading package lists... Done

E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/cache/app-info -a -e /usr/bin/appstreamcli; then appstreamcli refresh-cache > /dev/null; fi'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

$ sudo appstreamcli --version
AppStream CLI tool version: 0.10.6

$ sudo appstreamcli refresh-cache --force --verbose
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Added /usr/share/app-info/xmls to metadata search path.
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Added /var/lib/app-info/yaml to metadata search path.
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Added /var/cache/app-info/xmls to metadata search path.

** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Refreshing AppStream cache
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Searching for data in: /usr/share/app-info/xmls
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Searching for data in: /var/cache/app-info/xmls
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Searching for data in: /var/lib/app-info/yaml
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Reading: /usr/share/app-info/xmls/org.freedesktop.fwupd.xml
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Reading: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: WARNING: Could not parse XML data: Entity: line 265: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
^


---SNIP-------

** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: system/os/package/zathura-pdf-poppler.desktop extends system/os/package/zathura.desktop, but system/os/package/zathura.desktop was not found.
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Error while updating the in-memory data pool: Metadata files have errors: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml
** (appstreamcli:13014): DEBUG: Stemming language is: en
AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were found: Metadata files have errors: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml



Looking at:

Library corruption error during apt-get update
The "remedies" does not help, the problem persists.



Reading this:
Ubuntu 16.04: appstreamcli error while get-update
... sadly has an older version to download and install as remedy.

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