synaptic cannot be started via GUI

Bug #870217 reported by stop
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Synaptic does not start via the GUI. It does not work in gnome-shell and it does not work in unity. No password dialog can be seen, nothing happens...
It does work with terminal via "gksudo synaptic"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 7 20:42:18 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-31 (37 days ago)

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stop (whoopwhoop) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This works for me with the same version of synaptic on Oneiric in Unity 2D.

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

That version is too old and no more maintained

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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