[Synaptic-devel] Fwd: Re: gsynaptic & synaptic sudden shutdown

[Richard]

This is part of a thread started in a suse mailing list. FYI.

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Subject: Re: [SLE] Re: synaptic error messages
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:21:13 -0500
From: Richard <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden

On Thursday 19 September 2002 5:11 am, Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM) wrote:
> Just to warn you, I started off with gsynaptic.  It has (YMMV) a bad 
> memory leak somewhere (I believe in the scroll bar on the download 
> screen).  I downloaded several packages last night, came back, and had 
> almost no memory left free (384M Ram), and had used up about 500M of 
> swap.  I uninstalled it, and downloaded and installed synaptic (wings 
> version).  It worked much better, but it still closes after an update, 
> or a package upgrade.  Still works well, just an anoyance. ;-)
> 
> BTW, I checked the filters file.  No problem there.  It is viewable and 
> only 1.2K.  No problem there.
> 
I hadnt noticed any increase in mem useage but I removed gsynaptic and 
reinstalled synaptic. It's an easy task.  I have noticed one difference 
between the two.  A doubleclick on a file in gsynaptic will change the 
selected action. On synaptic the double click has no effect.

BTW, the developers are very responsive to suggestions/queries and are trying 
to solve the shutdown problem.   They are also working on the error message 
thing, too. Will probably be a couple of weeks before they have it isolated 
and fixed, they said.  So if we can be patient, we will see some progress.

Ra

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