Empty drop-down boxes on General tab in Preferences

[Jun Kobayashi]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Version-Release number:
0.57.11.1ubuntu12

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a terminal window.
2. Run 'gksudo synaptic'.
3. Enter your password and click 'OK'.
4. Open 'Preferences' dialog. ([Settings] - [Preferences] on the menu)
5. Two drop-down boxes for 'System upgrade' and 'Reloading outdated package information' are empty.
6. Click one of these empty boxes, and error outputs appears in your terminal as follows:

(synaptic:18234): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_menu_popup: assertion `GTK_IS_MENU (menu)' failed

(synaptic:18234): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_menu_get_active: assertion `GTK_IS_MENU (menu)' failed

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 2 17:04:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.57.11.1ubuntu12
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: synaptic
ProcCwd: /home/kbys
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux ubunchu 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux