Cannot find e.g. 'openocd' with Quick search not search

[Quidam]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Both Quick search and Search fail.
Bug occurs after installing 8.10, after fully formating the hard disk.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Package: synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Ameen Demidem (ameen.demidem)]

Thanks for your input.
Can you please be more clear about what / how it fails ?
Is it possible to get the steps to reproduce the bug ?
Thanks for your help.

[Jayen (jayen)]

Hi! I also experienced this problem. I tried adding a new repository on two systems, and it worked on one of them, but not this one.

This repo:
deb http://www.csesoc.unsw.edu.au/pub/ubuntu intrepid main restricted universe multiverse
This key file:
http://www.csesoc.unsw.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/repository.sig

after adding, searching for csesoc didn't work. after rebooting, searching worked, but quick search still doesn't.

Thanks,
Jayen

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Also, please answer these questions:
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem and resolving this bug.

[Jayen (jayen)]

Muhammad/Pedro,

I think it's pretty clear how to reproduce this bug.

For Quidam's scenario:
-install ubuntu 8.10
-run synaptic
-search for openocd
-there are no search results, when there should be one

For my scenario:
-add the above repository
-add the above key file
-quick search for csesoc
-there are no search results, when there should be two

[alfredo (alacis)]

Hi, Synaptic Package Manager's Search is broken, broken, broken.

I'm seeing something very similar. I wanted to search for "kget"

NO, repeat --->NO<--- result.

Even searching for the *incredibly* small string"kg" gets NO, repeat ===>>NO<<=== result.

It SHOULD get these 13 result --- at the VERY least --- and these are only picked from the package >>>NAME<<< ... *not* the DESCRIPTION:
-> kgamma
-> kgb
-> kgeography
-> kgeography-data
-> kget
-> kgmailnotifier
-> kgoldrunner
-> kgpg
-> kgrab
-> kgrab-kde4
-> kgraphviewer
-> kgrubeditor
-> kguitar

Absolutely reproducible. This is just he sort of thing that sends people off the deep-end, and into a commercially-purcha$ed Operating System.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 384454, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.