When I click on the menu for synaptic an icon (starting administrative application) shows on the panel with the other open programs as if it is attempting to run then the icon disappears and nothing more happens (satellite modem connection see below). I can normally repeat this several times. I never have gotten "starting without administrative privileges". Yes this is very strange.
Ready for "Outer Limits", it gets stranger. My hunches led me to some more bizarre checks after I noticed when connected to the Toshiba ISDN router (64k) everything worked properly. Later after reconfirming that there were problems when attached to the WildBlue satellite modem (They claim broadband and it is if you need to download an .iso but pings are 1300ms, 1.5m) I completely disconnected the network cord and both programs loaded and would ask for the password just as they did on the ISDN connection. The ISDN router is set up for a workgroup called "bob" but no other computers are connected to the router. More: When I simply attached the cord to ISDN router, or satellite modem or disconnected entirely, I found that I could repeat the good and bad behavior as long as I didn't actually type in the password in both programs and instead clicked "Cancel". Naturally, once I had typed in the password both programs would work without even displaying the password cue. Summary: ISDN router = both programs work Not connected = both programs work Satellite modem = synaptic doesn't work but upgrade-manager works about 50% of time (See "Additional strangeness" below). I prefer to use the satellite connection for upgrades and installs because it is much faster which probably led me to filing the original bug report. Additional strangeness: Synaptic almost never works when connected to the satellite modem. I say never because I almost think on one of the 20 or so attempts it did. Right now update-manager loads 100% of time and about 50% of the time it asks for a password when I press "Check". After I press "Cancel" I can repeat the press "Check". If it doesn't do the check properly the program hangs, I get the spinning ball, and then I am forced to issue a "killall update-manager" to stop the program. Now that I think about it this may have something to do with the way the program is polling the ISP considering those long ping times. There might be a timeout function that needs tweaking. BTW this computer almost never crashes and as far as I can tell has no stability problems. Firefox works reasonably well considering the long ping times and large files download well. I should have warned you from the beginning that strangeness is the norm for me. Thanks for sticking with me on this. Ken Dimitrios Symeonidis wrote: > When you say "synaptic won't run" what exactly do you mean? do you get > some "unable to resolve host" message, or does it not run at all? Both > synaptic and update-manager should ask for your password, so it's > strange that you get to enter the password only when running update- > manager... When you run synaptic package manager from the menu, do you > get a message "starting without administrative privileges"? > > -- Won't run but apt-get does https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240154 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
