Ashton Fagg <ash...@fagg.id.au> writes: > On 21 January 2012 10:55, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> However, if I start synaptic it immediately pegs resources (as viewed >> in `top') around 92-95 percent us.. And there it stays until I close the >> partially open synaptic gui. >> >> At that point the `top' reading drops to 92-95 percent id. >> >> Surely this is quite abnormal... where would I look to start >> debugging? >
> Has this worked previously? Is it a new problem? I've only started the gui once or twice before and its been a while but I think it did work as expected. I normally do things with aptitude as mentioned in OP. > Have you tried reinstalling the Synaptic? No, should that be necessary? > I remember hearing about this previously with an old release Ubuntu a > few years ago. I just had a look and managed to find it. Somebody > suggests deleting /var/run/synaptic.socket. Your mileage may vary, but > here's the bug report - it doesn't sound like it's entirely the same > issue, though. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/218213 And its several years old. Plus, the fix mentioned there does not apply here since there is no file named /var/run/synaptic*.socket present to delete. Thanks for the effort though. For further input, I did reboot for other reasons and kind of thought that might change things with synaptic too, but it didn't. Well, it does show a bit less resource usage but still over 80%. Oddly, the update manager starts and runs with no problems, and I think that also uses synaptic doesn't it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjj8bmhj....@newsguy.com
