Re: [Synaptic-devel] Bug: synaptic crashing at start up

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, José Carlos Pereira Lopes wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm using Synaptic version 0.56.1-4 with SuSe 10.0 and it worked fine until a
> couple of days ago when it crashes at start up.
> I have the following message when running from a shell:
>
> (synaptic:31238): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET
> (widget)' failed
> synaptic: rpm/rpmhandler.cc:131: virtual long unsigned int
> RPMFileHandler::FileSize(): Assertion `rc != 0' failed.
>
> In order to get more information I run the command "gdb synaptic" and here is
> the result:

It crashes within libapt-pkg of apt-rpm, nothing Synaptic can do about it. 
It fails to read file size of a package from the repository data, perhaps 
that data is corrupted.

As a first step you might want to try cleaning up your local cache:
# rm -f /var/lib/apt/lists/*.*
..or replace the path with /var/state/apt/lists/ if the above doesn't 
exist, and then try updating the package lists again (with apt or from 
synaptic)

        - Panu -