[Bug 71881] synaptic freeze

[gadesz]

Public bug reported:

When settings changed and press ´OK´ or ´Apply´ at Synaptic ->
Preferences -> General -- Synaptic freeze and CPU use goes up to 100%.
Only can be killed from terminal.


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top - 20:30:17 up  1:18,  3 users,  load average: 0.42, 0.38, 0.37
Tasks: 151 total,   2 running, 149 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.3%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1035100k total,   830724k used,   204376k free,    18808k buffers
Swap:   538136k total,        0k used,   538136k free,   511932k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 7596 root      25   0 52736  30m  18m R 98.2  3.0   0:21.16 synaptic           
 6297 root      15   0 13480 6112 3540 S  1.3  0.6   0:03.57 at-spi-registry    
    1 root      16   0  1632  532  448 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.11 init               
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
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I am using  Ubuntu Egdy Efl on IBM Thinkpad X31

Thanks
Fabian

** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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synaptic freeze
https://launchpad.net/bugs/71881