Can't use Synaptic with GNOME 3.12 (PPA)

[Tim]

On 09/05/14 15:33, Christian Kirbach wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 09.05.2014, 11:21 +1000 schrieb Tim:
>> On 09/05/14 08:50, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am having a problem with Synaptic in Gnome 3.12 (from PPA) in Ubuntu
>>> GNOME 14.04. Synaptic is very slow and takes almost a minute to be ready
>>> for use. 
>> I have seen this slow loading, however I have not seen any of the below symptons.
>> I suppose just file the bug against synaptic in Ubuntu, whatever is causing the issue
>> is most likely to cause problems once we start transitioning utopic to 3.12
> I do see slow loading and slow searching, but not any of the other
> symptoms. Synaptic is eating 100% time of one logic CPU core during that
> time.
> Can you please post the bug number here when done?
I meant for you to file a bug!
If synaptic is eating up a core, it may be worth trying to profile it with strace or similar, so see exactly where that cpu time is going!
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>>> But as soon as I type in search or try to apply anything it
>>> hangs again for another minute. It's is unusable for all practical
>>> purposes. It also slows down the whole desktop and turn animations
>>> jerky. I am not able to close Synaptic either having to kill the
>>> process. Everything else seems to work fine. How and where should I
>>> report this problem? After a ppa-purge Synaptic works as normal again.
>>>
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