I have experienced that bug for a long time too. And it does no seem to be only related to font settings. It happens every now and then, sometimes after upgrading some packages.
I have a scenario which seems to trigger the bug in a reproducible manner : 1. Launch synaptic (synaptic-pkexec actually) 2. Go to preferences, distribution tab. See that it's configured fr "prefer versions from testing". Click "validate". 3. Go to preferences, distribution tab again : it's now configured to "always prefer highest version" and "prefer version from", altouh unselected is set to "unstable". Hope this will help. Cheers, Laurent -- http://www.laurentmartelli.com // http://www.imprimart.fr
