Package: synaptic Version: 0.84.2 Errors from syslog:-
Aug 28 23:30:52 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[6912]: No protocol specified Aug 28 23:30:52 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[6912]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Aug 28 23:30:52 roblaptop synaptic[6914]: cannot open display: :0 Synaptic starts up, asks for the admin password and then disappears. The errors above appear to be logged prior to the password pop-up. There are so many un-resolved bugs listed against this package it hardly seems worthwhile using it in future. Don't even know why I'm bothering to report this particular bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.15-1 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.5~beta2 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.5~beta2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.24.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-14 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.10-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.10-1 ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3+b1 ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.53.4-3 ii libgnutls30 3.5.14-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.18-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.6-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.6-1 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.22-3 ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-1 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.2-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxapian30 1.4.4-2 ii policykit-1 0.105-18 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.24992-1+b1 ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.49 pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> ii menu 2.1.47+b1 pn software-properties-gtk <none> ii tasksel 3.39 -- no debconf information