Synaptic and dselect behaving oddly

[Michael Vogt]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:38:34PM -0500, Nathan Sprangers wrote:
> Norman Silverstone wrote:
[..]
> >>Oh, something else that's interesting, aptitude works fine - shows 
> >>everything, so I don't know what's up...
> >>
> >>~Nathan
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Make sure that 'All' in the left hand panel is highlighted. It has
> >happened to me.
> >
> >Norman
> >
> >
> Nothing changes when I select different sections or do a search except 
> that instead of saying 13151 packages listed it says a different number 
> - but still doesn't display them in the window! =)

What version of ubuntu and synaptic are you running? Does that happens
on warty? or hoary? Does it help if you do (at a terminal):
$ sudo mv /root/.synaptic /root/.synaptic.old
and restart synaptic? If it helps, could you please send me the
content of the /root/synaptic.old directory?

thanks,
 Michael

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