Synaptic Package Manager will not load

[kansasnoob]

This hit me today for the first time

I can launch synaptic via terminal but not from the gui in the menu

Maybe some of the devs keep using old templates including broken code to apply updates?

[ventrical]

Actually .. just a while ago , synaptic from unity gui rescued a busted kernel in an original lubuntu install running unity-desktop overclocked @5.120GHz!

[ventrical]

I have just this minute updated my Ubuntu with unity, 64 bit using an intel integrated HD4000 graphic chip, and have had no problem at all with the update; everything is just as snappy as before, compiz is still working, and all still looks good.

I have lost the style of login greeter screen that I used to have, with the login box middle left of the screen, and it has since yesterday or the day before, changed to a login box bang in the middle of the screen, looking quite ugly, but it still works fine so I am not too worried by that, though it looks rather old fashioned compared to the old style greeter.

I had a very cool phenomenon happen to me while using synaptic package manager today from kernel 3.13.0-8 . I had originally updated from terminal <sudo apt-get update/dist-upgrade> yesterday after first back-clocking to 4.GHz. After the update was done I had no network and was pointed to llvmpipe with the new kernel 3.13.0-23 update. My desktop was useless pretty well. I decided (just on a fluke) to run synaptic after booting into the 3.13.0-8 kernel (which gave me network and proper graphics driver and it then proceded to re-install the kernels (actually it removed the original 3.13.0-23 and installed the newly downloaded 3.13.0.23 from synaptic). The result is that the unity0desktop installed on top of Lubuntu is working perfectly restored as it's previous kernel 3.13.0-8.

basically .. synaptic is working excpetionally. well in these parts ! lol

edit:

ok .. didn't see any header on the OP but now see that this is 64 bit and I am running 32bit on my OC box.

[kansasnoob]

Currently the command called is:

synaptic-pkexec

Which is clearly wrong!

[ventrical]

Works fine on 64bit.

[orj-gmail]

This hit me today for the first time

I can launch synaptic via terminal but not from the gui in the menu

Maybe some of the devs keep using old templates including broken code to apply updates?

since 2 or3 days synaptic is starting very slow (needs 1-2 minutes).

Edit: with the updates of today 09-04-14 the problem wit synaptic is gone.

[cariboo]

I had the problem with synaptic not starting a couple of days ago, but updates fixed it, the exec line in /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop looks like this:

Exec=synaptic-pkexec

@kansasnoob, are you using another mirror, instead of the main one?

[kansasnoob]

I had the problem with synaptic not starting a couple of days ago, but updates fixed it, the exec line in /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop looks like this:

Exec=synaptic-pkexec

@kansasnoob, are you using another mirror, instead of the main one?

I'm OK now.

In between times I was dealing with a Saucy bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/1205643

Updating/upgrading Saucy packages was a freaking nightmare so I suspect there are just problems with the Ubuntu repos.

Maybe it has to do with dropping Ubuntu One?

Even zsync has been unreliable.

[TBeholder]

I got it funnier - same

GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed

in terminal - but after that it still works and installs packages. So much for "CRITICAL**".
Xubuntu trusty
synaptic v. 0.81.1
libglib2.0-* v. 2.40.0-2

[philinux]

I got it funnier - same

GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed

in terminal - but after that it still works and installs packages. So much for "CRITICAL**".
Xubuntu trusty
synaptic v. 0.81.1
libglib2.0-* v. 2.40.0-2

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