gdebi-gtk crashed with IOError in write_synaptic_config_file() after installing deb and click on close button

Bug #633885 reported by Leszek Lesner
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdebi

Gdebi-GTK crashes after installing a deb package and clicking the close button in the progressbar window.
It tries to write to /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf which isn't writeable for the user (thats at least what the traceback says)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gdebi 0.6.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 9 11:57:20 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100806)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk --non-interactive /home/hostname/Downloads/gtk-recordmydesktop_0.3.8-1hostname1_all.deb
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi-gtk', '--non-interactive', '/home/hostname/Downloads/gtk-recordmydesktop_0.3.8-1hostname1_all.deb']
SourcePackage: gdebi
Title: gdebi-gtk crashed with IOError in write_synaptic_config_file()
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Leszek Lesner (leszek-lesner) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #624703, so 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.

tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
visibility: private → public
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