Comment 8 for bug 1328586

I can confirm that very likely the bug is related to reading index information.
I usually use "status" from the bottom left pane.
At startup, synaptic seems to spend a minute or so reading the information (all packages).
When a limited number of packages is chosen from the left pane (installed or local), the application is faster, but not normal.

Like I said, synaptic startup and functioning is normal on some boot-ups (perhaps 10-20 % of all).
At that time, closing the application is also normal.
But, when the bug is "on", the application will also hang a while at closure.
So there is some kind of freezing too.