Can't use Synaptic with GNOME 3.12 (PPA)

Christian Dysthe cdysthe at gmail.com
Fri May 9 14:40:14 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 11:21 +1000, Tim wrote:
> 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 will report it. As a user I wonder how to correctly report problems
related to the staging PPA. I have notification issues in 3.12 (icons
not showing). Should I just report them as Ubuntu bugs?

> > 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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//Christian
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