Dapper - synaptic close down randomly during installation

Bug #35727 reported by Mante
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synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Dapper flight 4, synaptic freezes randomly during packages installation. I've tried several packages but the result is the same. I said freezes but I should say "disappear" as no error message is displayed. Synaptic just suddenly vanishes off.
I'm using a Panasonic(Matsushita) CF-Y4JW8AXR
but I don't know if depends on my notebook.
How to reproduce the bug:
Launch synaptic. Select packages randomly. Apply changes

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

Could you please update to the latest version and report if this behavior still appears.

The synaptic install process stalls?

Please start synaptic from a terminal using "sudo synaptic" and paste the output of ther terminal here.

Thanks,

Sebastian

Changed in synaptic:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Mante (mante) wrote :

Hello, I'am using the latest version.
launching synaptic with sudo from console, produce the following message:

Launching a Scim daemon with socket frontend
Loading simple config module
Creating backend...
Loading socket frontend module
Starting Scim as Daemon
GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4

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The problem still persist
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Is it perhaps a problem related to scim? I need Scim to write in japanese, so if I cannot use it with synaptic, is there a way to disable it only when launching synaptic.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please try runing synaptic with a debugger? To do this, please open a terminal and type:
$ sudo bash
# gdb synaptic
(gdb) run
[make it crash]
(gdb) backtrace

and attach the backtrace here?

Thanks,
 Michael

Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
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Mante (mante) wrote :

I did an apt-get upgrade today and looks lik the problem had been fixed. Sorry couldn't debug as you asked before. However I think the problem was related with scim, because till today I had to disable scim or launching synaptic with LANG=C synaptic ( I'm using japanese environment) to have it working correctly.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

Thanks.

Changed in synaptic:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for this additional info. Please reopen if it happens again and let us know if you suspect scim again. We will try to reproduce it then :)

Cheers,
 Michael

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