Package: synaptic Version: 0.82 Followup-For: Bug #806518 I can confirm downgrading to libept1.4.16 version 1.0.14+b1 fixed it too. Also just sudo synaptic had the same problem, in case you thought it was just invoking using the pkexec.
- Craig -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (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 0.13-1 ii libapt-inst1.7 1.0.10.2 ii libapt-pkg4.16 1.0.10.2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.4-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.4-1 ii libept1.4.16 1.0.14+b1 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-26 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.2-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.5-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-26 ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.36.3-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.21-1.2 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-9 ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2496-3 ii policykit-1 0.105-14 ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47+nmu2 pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> ii menu 2.1.47 pn software-properties-gtk <none> ii tasksel 3.34 -- no debconf information