Re: My synaptic (and other) broken with update of sarge

From: Hugo Vanwoerkom (hvw59601_at_care2.com)
Date: 02/28/05

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:36:11 -0600

    Don wrote:
    > On Sunday 27 February 2005 07:03 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
    >
    >>Don wrote:
    >>
    >>>I frequently use synaptic on two systems, running Debian sarge and
    >>>kernels 2.6.8 and 2.4.26. I have noticed in recent upgrades/updates of
    >>>both that the toolbar now has reappeared in synaptic (there's been some
    >>>postings on that problem before) but when trying to install a package
    >>>which brings up the window telling me it will install other "depend"
    >>>packages, closing that window with either "OK" or "cancel" will
    >>>completely knock me out of my session and immediately bring up the kde
    >>>log-in screen.
    >>>
    >>>Has anyone else found this or is my problem local? Any workaround? It
    >>>limits usefulness of synaptic greatly.
    >>>
    >>>I've also noticed on a couple other new applications I've been trying out
    >>>have the same trouble of either knocking me immediately out of a session
    >>>or the application just terminates itself.
    >>>
    >>>Don
    >>
    >>I also use synaptic, most recent (yesterday) Sarge and kernel 2.4.29.
    >>But I don't see that synaptic behavior.
    >>Can you post a test case that fails then I will try to do that and post
    >>the results.
    >>
    >>HTH
    >>H
    >
    > Maybe it is the combination of settings in my system which shows up the
    > problem. I relate it to probably the library problem which took out the
    > toolbar icons for the past month or so ... since suddenly the toolbar icons
    > are back and now this problem I have.
    >
    > Test case: I just tried the very first one I found in the "all" category...
    > "3dchess". Clicked on mark for install, then the window comes up telling me
    > it will also install "xaw3dg". If I click on the "X" in upper right corner
    > of window to close window without action, all is well. But clicking on
    > either "Mark" or "Cancel" takes me completely out of synaptic. (At times
    > before it knocked me out of the session and back to login screen.)
    >
    > By the way, how do you start up synaptic?
    >

    I use fvwm for window-manager: it has a button bound to "exec sudo
    /usr/sbin/synaptic" and /etc/sudoers is appropriately set.

    Given the other posts I did not do "3dchess" but "3ddesktop" which
    needed: freeglut3, libglut3, libimlib2 and libltdl3.

    I right clicked on 3ddesktop, selected "mark for installation"

    OK'ed the list that came up for the 4 added deps.

    Did edit->apply marked changes.

    Window appears with 5 successive download progress bars

    After that window appears with installs.

    Closing that window on finish shows synaptic again with 3ddesktop now
    installed.

    I do a backup before every dist-upgrade. But on that backup I do not
    keep a script output of the last dist-upgrade :-( I'll change that, but
    it does mean that I only know what got changed the last one I did: on
    the 25th of feb.

    H 

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