Synaptic and dselect behaving oddly

[Nathan Sprangers]

Michael Vogt wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:34:05PM +0100, Sebastian Müsch wrote:
>  
>
>>>>I think that's the culprit.  I set the "show package properties in
>>>>main window" preference again and I had the same problem.  Can anyone
>>>>reproduce this?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>I can. And as I now see I'm not the only one, so it could be a bug. Synaptic
>>quit's with memory-access-error. After deleting the .synaptic-preference
>>folder within root's home everything worked again.
>>    
>>
>
>This looks like bug #2367
>(https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367). 
>
>Do you both run warty on PPC boxes?
>
>It is fixed in hoary and I have updated packages for warty on
>http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mvo/synaptic/warty/ 
>
>You may want to add:
>
>deb http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mvo/synaptic/warty/ /
>
>to your sources.list file (or use synaptic to do it) and tell me if it
>works then.
>
>
>
>sorry,
> Michael
>  
>

Thank  you, that fixed the problem I was having.  Don't be sorry, it worked!
~Nathan