I can confirm that on Hardy, simply launch Synaptic with "gksudo synaptic" instead of "kdesudo synaptic" and it won't hang anymore.
-- [kde4] synaptic does get when dpkg terminates when run with kdesudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156041 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs