Synaptic and dselect behaving oddly

[Nathan Sprangers]

Michael Vogt wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:38:34PM -0500, Nathan Sprangers wrote:
>  
>
>>Norman Silverstone wrote:
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>[..]
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>
>>>>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
>

Thanks!  That fixed it.  This was synaptic 0.53.4 on warty.  Here's the 
content of the old directory (sorry if it's a bit long):

options:
ubuntu-calendar-december 1

synaptic.conf:
Synaptic "" {
  ViewMode "4";
  showWelcomeDialog "0";
  Download-Only "false";
  closeZvt "true";
  vpanedPos "186";
  hpanedPos "239";
  windowWidth "911";
  windowHeight "532";
  windowX "45";
  windowY "25";
  ToolbarState "2";
  ShowAllPkgInfoInMain "true";
  AskRelated "true";
  UseRecommends "false";
  OneClickOnStatusActions "false";
  delAction "3";
  upgradeType "-1";
  undoStackSize "20";
  UseTerminal "true";
  AskQuitOnProceed "false";
  useUserFont "0";
  useUserTerminalFont "0";
  statusColumnPos "0";
  statusColumnVisible "0";
  supportedColumnPos "1";
  supportedColumnVisible "0";
  nameColumnPos "2";
  nameColumnVisible "0";
  instVerColumnPos "3";
  instVerColumnVisible "0";
  availVerColumnPos "4";
  availVerColumnVisible "0";
  instSizeColumnPos "5";
  instSizeColumnVisible "0";
  descrColumnPos "6";
  descrColumnVisible "0";
  color-install "#8383A6A67F7F";
  color-reinstall "#8383A6A67F7F";
  color-upgrade "#EEEED6D68080";
  color-downgrade "#ADADA7A7C8C8";
  color-remove "#C1C166665A5A";
  color-purge "#DFDF42421E1E";
  color-available "";
  color-available-locked "#BABAB5B5ABAB";
  color-installed-updated "";
  color-installed-outdated "";
  color-installed-locked "#BABAB5B5ABAB";
  color-broken "";
  color-new "";
  UseStatusColors "true";
  CleanCache "false";
  AutoCleanCache "false";
  useProxy "0";
  httpProxy "";
  httpProxyPort "3128";
  ftpProxy "";
  ftpProxyPort "3128";
  noProxy "";
  DefaultDistro "warty";
};

filters:
filter "Search Filter" {
  section {
    inclusive false;
    sections {
    };
  };
  status {
    flags 0x7fffffff;
  };
  pattern {
    patterns {
    };
  };
  priority {
  };
  reducedview {
    enabled false;
  };
};
filter "Broken" {
  section {
    inclusive false;
    sections {
    };
  };
  status {
    flags 0x4;
  };
  pattern {
    patterns {
    };
  };
  priority {
  };
  reducedview {
    enabled false;
  };
};
filter "Marked Changes" {
  section {
    inclusive false;
    sections {
    };
  };
  status {
    flags 0x34;
  };
  pattern {
    patterns {
    };
  };
  priority {
  };
  reducedview {
    enabled false;
  };
};
filter "Pkg with Debconf" {
  section {
    inclusive false;
    sections {
    };
  };
  status {
    flags 0x7fffffff;
  };
  pattern {
    patterns {
      Depends; "^debconf"; false;
    };
  };
  priority {
  };
  reducedview {
    enabled false;
  };
};
filter "Upgradable (upstream)" {
  section {
    inclusive false;
    sections {
    };
  };
  status {
    flags 0x1000;
  };
  pattern {
    patterns {
    };
  };
  priority {
  };
  reducedview {
    enabled false;
  };
};