synaptic not starting

[Phill Whiteside]

http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24

Regards,

phillw.


On 16 May 2014 20:57, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:

> On 5/16/2014 3:43 PM, Israel wrote:
>
>> On 05/16/2014 11:58 AM, farinet at arcor.de wrote:
>>
>>> Since very recent, i'm unable to start synaptic I tried it out of a
>>> terminal and this are the error msgs i'm getting:
>>>
>>> ----
>>> (synaptic:24843): Gtk-WARNING **: Style property
>>> "border-top-left-radius" is not gettable
>>>
>>> (synaptic:24843): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:
>>> /build/glib2.0-9sMUmu/glib2.0-2.40.0/./gobject/gtype.c:4210: type id
>>> '0' is invalid
>>>
>>> (synaptic:24843): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: can't peek value table for
>>> type '<invalid>' which is not currently referenced
>>> Speicherzugriffsfehler
>>> ----
>>> (Speicherzugriffsfehler = memory access error)
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot in advance for any pointer!
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>> The
>> "Speicherzugriffsfehler" is the major problem, I see a lot of those
>> Glib-GObject WARNINGs when I run various things from the terminal.
>> So, now for my questions...
>> Have you changed anything major recently, or installed any proprietary
>> video drivers?
>> I have had random programs stop working once I installed a proprietary
>> video driver, because it renamed certain linked libraries (or deleted
>> them).
>> What tweaking have you done recently?  Did you edit any files that
>> required sudo?
>>
>> You can always try
>> sudo apt-get autoremove --purge synaptic && sudo apt-get install synaptic
>>
>> This removes (and purges the configuration) synaptic, and reinstalls it.
>>
>>
> As a middle measure you could also try
> sudo apt-get clean
>
> (Since synaptic is a front-end for the apt system, the problem may lie
> there, and the above command clears out the local repository of retrieved
> package files.)
>
>
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