Re: [Synaptic-devel] "Apply" not committing changes

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Jon Roland wrote:

> I have the latest version available through the freshrpms family of
> repos, 0.53.3. It is downloading files as the first part of a "smart
> upgrade", but then quits before the changes are committed. I also notice
> that the progress bar is missing from the bottom of the window where it
> would indicate such commitment. I have to revert to apt-get dist-upgrade
> in the xterm to get it to complete. The following is my apt-get session:

It's probably crashing on something, if you can reproduce it within gdb 
that should give us some clues what's going on - run it like this
# gdb synaptic
...and if/when it crashes take a backtrace of it:
(gdb) bt
...and post the full output of that here for analyzing.

        - Panu -