It was defenitely the filesystem's fault that it did not work, but I still think it would be nice to tell the user about the problem. It actually seems to be detected as it is written out on the console if Synaptic is started from the commandline.
the /tmp filesystem is as it has been setup by the installer with the default settings, mount -l does not show anything special for /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Development/denemo/denemo$ cd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount -l /dev/sda6 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail) [] proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type ntfs (rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46) [] /dev/sda3 on /home/rbrandenburger/Documents/exchange type vfat (rw,uid=1000,gid=1000) [EXCHANGE] binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Synaptic Package Manager dies silently https://launchpad.net/bugs/83937 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
