Re: [Synaptic-devel] synaptic crash on fedora 8

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Adrin Jalali wrote:

> hi there,
> i used synaptic on fedora 8 but it does not work at all. when it starts,
> says that 2 packages are broken and when i tell him to fix those
> packages, it wants to remove 4 packages related to perl-bioperl. But
> while trying to remove them, it hangs and even after 5 minutes, it
> doesn't resume and i must kill it. And after these, neither rpm nor yum
> will not work until restart.
>
> Also when i click on preferences on the application, it crashes and will
> be closed.

This is a combination of various silly bugs... Synaptic crashing will 
leave stale rpmdb lock behind, causing all future operations to hang 
indefinetely.

Exit all rpm-related processes and do 'rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*' as root (a 
reboot will accomplish the same thing). Additionally you'll need to pull 
in some updates:
- the initial repository config is buggy, you'll need to update it first:
  # yum update fedora-package-config-apt
- opening up preferences crashing Synaptic is actually a bug in the
  Fedora 8 apt, an update will be pushed shortly, see
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389361

BTW I recommend you report issues with Synaptic on Fedora to bugzilla, I 
don't watch this list very actively these days...

        - Panu -