Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Don wrote:On Sunday 27 February 2005 07:03 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:Don wrote:I frequently use synaptic on two systems, running Debian sarge and kernels 2.6.8 and 2.4.26. I have noticed in recent upgrades/updates of both that the toolbar now has reappeared in synaptic (there's been some postings on that problem before) but when trying to install a package which brings up the window telling me it will install other "depend" packages, closing that window with either "OK" or "cancel" will completely knock me out of my session and immediately bring up the kde log-in screen. Has anyone else found this or is my problem local? Any workaround? It limits usefulness of synaptic greatly.I've also noticed on a couple other new applications I've been trying out have the same trouble of either knocking me immediately out of a sessionor the application just terminates itself. DonI also use synaptic, most recent (yesterday) Sarge and kernel 2.4.29. But I don't see that synaptic behavior. Can you post a test case that fails then I will try to do that and post the results. HTH HMaybe it is the combination of settings in my system which shows up the problem. I relate it to probably the library problem which took out the toolbar icons for the past month or so ... since suddenly the toolbar icons are back and now this problem I have.Test case: I just tried the very first one I found in the "all" category... "3dchess". Clicked on mark for install, then the window comes up telling me it will also install "xaw3dg". If I click on the "X" in upper right corner of window to close window without action, all is well. But clicking on either "Mark" or "Cancel" takes me completely out of synaptic. (At times before it knocked me out of the session and back to login screen.)By the way, how do you start up synaptic?I use fvwm for window-manager: it has a button bound to "exec sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" and /etc/sudoers is appropriately set.Given the other posts I did not do "3dchess" but "3ddesktop" which needed: freeglut3, libglut3, libimlib2 and libltdl3.I right clicked on 3ddesktop, selected "mark for installation" OK'ed the list that came up for the 4 added deps. Did edit->apply marked changes. Window appears with 5 successive download progress bars After that window appears with installs.Closing that window on finish shows synaptic again with 3ddesktop now installed.I do a backup before every dist-upgrade. But on that backup I do not keep a script output of the last dist-upgrade :-( I'll change that, but it does mean that I only know what got changed the last one I did: on the 25th of feb.H
Tonight's update to synaptic took care of the problem that several of us have been having as outlined above -- or at least it did for me. Thanks to whoever fixed it.