I had the same issue loading synaptic although sometimes it worked and sometimes not. If I launched from a terminal using: "sudo synaptic" it worked every time.
Adding: 127.0.1.1 <my hostname> to /etc/hosts worked wonders. many thanks! -- update-manager fails to bring up the password prompt for root privileges https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
