[Bug 793130] Re: Synaptic freezes when I select a package to install and scroll through list of dependencies

[pawel]

Fair enough. I just thought since the root privileges remain 'open' (by
this crashed instance of Synaptic so no other application can use them),
the system might somehow be more vulnerable. But I'm no expert.

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Title:
  Synaptic freezes when I select a package to install and scroll through
  list of dependencies

Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: synaptic

  Whenever I select a package to install which requires multiple other
  packages (e.g. KOffice or k3b on Ubuntu) and the dialogue pops up
  asking about all the extra packages to install, when I scroll through
  the list in the dialogue, Synaptic suddenly freezes. Then it's
  impossible to even force-quit (via system-monitor, or otherwise),
  because synaptic is no longer on the list of processes. So the only
  thing to do it to restart the system.

  1) Release: 11.04 64bit
  2) Synaptic version: 0.75.1ubuntu2

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: synaptic 0.75.1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jun  5 14:25:13 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pl_PL:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: synaptic
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)