This is still present on Karmic (with all updates). And it is not just Synaptic that crashes. But even apt-get crashes. So it is not possible to recover form this unless the cache is deleted (as specified in Hiker's comment).
This is still present on Karmic (with all updates). And it is not just Synaptic that crashes. But even apt-get crashes. So it is not possible to recover form this unless the cache is deleted (as specified in Hiker's comment).