Public bug reported:
I started synaptic in a terminal window as a normal user. I replied OK
to the warning that normal users can't change anything. Got the
following
$ synaptic
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Not good!
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
$ apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
Installed: 0.84.2
Candidate: 0.84.2
Version table:
*** 0.84.2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: synaptic 0.84.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-37.42-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Mar 21 09:23:31 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-19 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful wayland-session
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