Synaptic crashes on start

[mauri]

Binary package hint: synaptic

When I start synaptic it flashes a bit and then it closes itself
Starting it in a terminal window I see:
maurizio@edgy:~$ synaptic
Segmentation fault
in dmesg I read:
[ 56.160336] python[4641]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002b73d3cb30f0 rsp 00007fffd74261f8 error 4
[ 69.820744] synaptic[4692]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip
00002aad8c5290f0 rsp 00007fff21722f28 error 4
I tried to remove *.bin files in /var/cache/apt/ and it works
but once I restart the PC and I start synaptic I have the same problem again

[mauri (mrzfbb)]

I removed *.bin files in /var/cache/apt/ and all files in /var/cache/apt/archives, too.
Now synaptic works fine.
bye

[mauri (mrzfbb)]

It seems a duplicate of bug 61708 but it is'nt equale
because I run gnome not kde and I don't use adept but synaptic

and I have not apt-index-watcher installed in my system!

Il giorno dom, 10/12/2006 alle 12.20 +0000, John Vivirito ha scritto:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 61708 ***
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 61708
> apt-index-watcher corrupts the apt cache database
>

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This is a duplicate. kde gnome doesnt matter its apt that is broken. Apt is same on all DE's. apt-index-watcher tries to work around this problem by periodically
 checking if the APT indexes have changed, and rebuilding the apt-front
 indexes. I'm not real sure why you dont have it installed as far as i know its installed by default.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This seems to be most likely a duplicate of #75273 (apt-index-watcher got fixed for edgy-final). If you can still reproduce the problem I would be interessted if the debdiff fixes the problem for you or if you can provide a backtrace.

Thanks,
 Michael