[Breezy] Synaptic segfaults at startup

[JP Foster]

Just dist-upgraded a new synaptic this afternoon (23rd May)
synpatic segfaults, seems to be down to some missing message files, see attached

# sudo strace synaptic 2>&1 | tail
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/synaptic.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
#

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JP

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I uploaded a new apt/synaptic today, please tell me if that fixes the problem
(should be available tomorrow) and close the bug if it does :)

Thanks,
 Michael

[JP Foster (jeepster)]

That's done the trick thanks.

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

Ok, with the C++ transition I have a seg fault at boot, and reinstalling
synaptic yeilded this:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libsigc++-1.2-5c102
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsigc++-1.2-5

It worked after I did this, but is this correct?

[Hervé Cauwelier (bug tracking) (debian-oursours)]

Yes, that's precisely the effect of the C++ transition, marking library package
names when they are transitioned. "c102" was the marker of the previous transition.