Synaptic defunct

[Eddie b]

Thanks Res, sent in email


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Eddie b wrote:
>
>> I have an interesting problem with updates or any action of synaptic.
>>
>> After turning on today, I saw I had 3 updates, the synaptic will just
>> refresh its loading data when I hit install, it never prompts for my
>> password, I closed rebooted, same thing twice, I updated fine by
>> apt-get upgrade, rebooted still no synaptic work, I loaded it manually
>> then from system on panel, it starts to load by a brief task bar
>> button then it all exits, again, not asking for password.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions to get synaptic to play nice?
>
> Try
>
> strace -oblah.txt gksu id
>
> Then read the blah.txt file
>
> if you cant understand its output, send blah.txt to me in email
> *off-list*   put [stracelazered]  in teh subject like so i'll get it,
> thats important, since its not a list psot youll be dev nulled if you
> dont.
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