Confusing "another synaptic" error when Synaptic launched during update

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: synaptic

1. While update-manager is installing an update, try to open Synaptic.

What happens: "Another synaptic is running in non-interactive mode. Please close it first."

What's wrong:
* The word "synaptic" is an adjective, not a noun, so you can't have "another synaptic". Probably this is supposed to be "another copy of Synaptic".
* But no, there isn't another copy of Synaptic running anyway, just update-manager. I suggest referring to "Update Manager" by name.
* "Non-interactive mode" is neither understandable nor explained. (I'd have a suggestion here too, but I don't know what non-interactive mode is either.)

[Miguel Diago (mdm)]

Yes, I agree, this can be confusing for some users. Could anyone modify the text of the error message?

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Perhpas we will see PackageKit in Gusty+1. This will fix this issue.

[Vish (vish)]

Still the same in Lucid

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Precise Pangolin.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure
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[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Actually, this has been fixed way before Precise, however it was surely after Lucid, as update-manager has transitioned from synaptic to aptdaemon as a backend in 10.10 or 11.04, as far as I can remember.