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synaptic package manager does not run

Bug #1960725 reported by Chris Hall on 2022-02-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

On 2 separate computers, both running 21.10, synaptic will not execute. All that happens is a wait symbol and then nothing appears. Package synaptic was removed with purge then reinstalled but this did not help.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: synaptic 0.90.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu67
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Sat Feb 12 16:58:43 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-04 (1166 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-29 (106 days ago)

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Chris Hall (cmhallmi) wrote on 2022-02-12:

CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (255.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (8.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (12.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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madigal (osse7) wrote on 2022-05-14 (last edit on 2022-05-14):

Check that the appropriate 'polkit' package is also installed for your flavor:
https://itsubuntu.com/install-synaptic-package-manager-ubuntu/

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