Public bug reported:
I sometimes invoke synaptic as an plain user, just to browse and read
the descriptions, etc. Used to work fine. Then I upgraded the kernel
from 4.4.0-75 to 4.4.0-78 by installing linux-generic (it had been
uninstalled to keep '77 at bay, because '77 killed my system).
Everything seems to be fine on that score. New kernel boots fine and apt
seems happy.
But now syanaptic as plain user crashes.
Started this way to log anything that mighgt be relevant:
synaptic > synaptic_as_user_terminal_output.txt
Got this in a pop up window:
E: Could not open file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - open (2: No such file or
directory)
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Then there was no synaptic gui and this was left in the visible terminal:
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
The log file synaptic_as_user_terminal_output.txt is completely empty.
This is on Xenial, 64 bit, a system built from the mini.iso, with xorg,
xinit, and openbox. No other DE, per se, just plain openbox. The
commands were run in xterm with PWD = ~/
Synaptic version is 0.83
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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synaptic as unpriveleged user crashes
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