On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:57:38PM -0400, Philip Miller wrote:
Thanks. What kind of kernel do you run? How often did this happen? Is
it reproducable?
$ uname -a
Linux phil 2.6.5+phil1 #1 Sun Apr 4 14:16:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Locally built, but no patches, just the vanilla kernel.org source.
When I run it again from apt-watch, when it shows there are upgrades, I
receive the same error on the first attempt at 'Apply'ing, and then it
works correctly on the second, as before.
Thanks a lot. The apt-watch hint helped a lot. I can reproduce the
problem here and it looks like it's some issue with apt-watch and
libzvt (the library we use for terminal output). I have version of
synaptic that builds against a different terminal widget (vte from
latest cvs) and the problem does not occur then.
Out of curiosity, on Debian at least, why not just use the user's preferred
xterm, rather than embeding your own? I would find synaptic much nicer if
the output were in a gnome-terminal rather than the built-in one.
Does the version I put on http://people.debian.org/~mvo/synaptic/ work
for you?
Well, this has technical reasons. Synaptic embeds apt (libapt to be
exact), it does not exec it. So we can only use a terminal that is
accessable from within gtk. I would _love_ to use the terminal widget
that gnome-terminal uses (that is vte). But the current vte does not
have the support that synaptic needs (the cvs version has). Once a new
version of vte comes out we'll switch to it.