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

[Jose Carlos Pereira Lopes]

Hello

The first command worked fine.
On the first run after the command I had the following message from synaptic:
Could not download all repository indexes

The repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted because 
of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be 
used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection 
and the correct writing of the repository address in the preferences.

ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-x86_64/base/pkglist.kde: Unable 
to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-x86_64/base/srclist.kde: Unable 
to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '

The following problems were found on your system:

W: Release file did not contain checksum information for 
ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-x86_64/base/pkglist.kde
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for 
ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-x86_64/base/release.kde
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for 
ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-x86_64/base/srclist.kde

It worked anyway and without any remarks on the second run.

Many thanks

José


-----Original Message-----
From: Panu Matilainen [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Fri 16-06-2006 8:42
To: Jose Carlos Pereira Lopes
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Synaptic-devel] Bug: synaptic crashing at start up
 
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 -