Package: synaptic Version: 0.84.6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
i always use stable and often Synaptic as Packetmanager. And on this actual machine i installed and upgraded Debian but at some point synaptic won't start anymore. It said APT::Default-Release "Stable-Updates" is invalid. But what it DID NOT say is from where this setting is coming. I tried to find it in /etc/apt but nothing found. And just after some web searching i found only ONE Post that explained a synaptic.conf in root's directory. This is weird because i have to key in my user password if i start synaptic as user (sudoed) and expected such a file in my home or in /etc/apt - but not in root's own dir. So, from a user's perspective Synaptic shut's down after the error message window and is no longer usable. For nothing. Making it an important bug i guess. I deleted the /root/.synaptic Folder and Synaptic is working again. I don't know how or from what this "stable-updates" entry is coming. I believe i did not set it but it must be done by anything. I only have the Trouble to make this work again. Because synaptic did not tell me in which file it founds a problematic entry. This is my suggestion that synaptic should tell the path and filename of the error. BTW. I tried to set a correct value in a new /etc/apt/apt.conf but then synaptic tells my bogus content at the end of file and... the filename. Why not everytime? -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.13 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-22-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.17-2 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.8.2.3 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2.3 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-10+deb10u1 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4+deb10u1 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4+deb10u1 ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3+b1 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u4 ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4+deb10u9 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.32-5 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.54.2-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1+deb10u2 ii libxapian30 1.4.11-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-25+deb10u1 ii zenity 3.30.0-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u2 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.24992-1+b2 ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1+deb10u1 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> pn menu <none> pn software-properties-gtk <none> ii tasksel 3.53 -- no debconf information
