synaptic package manager hangs when searching for best download server

[thebestofall007]

i am having a problem with synaptic package manager in jaunty when i try to find the fastest server for downloads. when i click on settings>repositories>download from other>select best server, the app locks up (greys out) and i am forced to use "force quit" on it. i have screenshots of my problem and a terminal output if that helps:

lou@lou-laptop:~$ sudo synaptic
synaptic: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
lou@lou-laptop:~$

this terminal output happens after i force the app to quit.

i can also manually ping some of the addresses i know to be searched by the tool and they work fine.

for example if i ping the address ftp.riken.jp i get:

lou@lou-laptop:~$ ping ftp.riken.jp
PING riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=263 ms
64 bytes from riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=272 ms
64 bytes from riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=266 ms
64 bytes from riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=44 time=262 ms
64 bytes from riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1): icmp_seq=5 ttl=44 time=265 ms
64 bytes from riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1): icmp_seq=6 ttl=44 time=269 ms
64 bytes from riksun.riken.go.jp (134.160.38.1): icmp_seq=7 ttl=44 time=274 ms
^C
--- riksun.riken.go.jp ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 262.431/267.718/274.675/4.397 ms
lou@lou-laptop:~$

if i wait for the app to "fix itself" (like one would do if a program is simply unresponsive) it stays locked up.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Mgth (mathieu-groupe-vitalis)]

As I experienced the same bug, I tryed to get the Information you need. But I'm not very sure it will be Ok cause synaptic seems to throw another process. And that one is the one that hangs.

Let me know if you need me to do something.

Best regards.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

The test is performed in software-properties. Re-affecting.

[BrandonTomlinson (druke)]

No problem here in lucid, tried invoking software-properties-gtk by itself and through synaptic.

My assumption than is that this bug has been fixed between jaunty and lucid.