Selon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hello Christophe, > > What is most likely to happen to you is that Synaptic is grabbing the > dpkg lock and update-menus is waiting in the background for this lock > to be released (look with ps). >
It is indeed what is happening. > Next time try to close Synaptic. After 2 seconds, update-menus should > start running so you should get the menu update 20 seconds after > Synaptic is closed. > That is correct, *if* I start update-menus manually while Synaptic is running. If I don't, update-menus won't be run at all, and the Debian menu won't be updated. This seems to at least partly defeat its purpose, especially since I seem to remember that the Debian menu did get automatically updated in the first days after I installed Debian. Regards, -- Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
