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Offline marrandy

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Synaptic fails to launch
« on: November 27, 2012, 11:18:38 AM »
A couple of days ago, I updated the system.  Everything seemed to go fine.

Today, I tried synaptic again.  I entered the root password as requested...then nothing.  Tried again.  the same.

Apparently its not launching and I can't fins any messages in /var/log/messages.

Any ideas ?
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Re: Synaptic fails to launch
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2012, 11:38:30 AM »
Quote from: marrandy on November 27, 2012, 11:18:38 AM
A couple of days ago, I updated the system.  Everything seemed to go fine.

Today, I tried synaptic again.  I entered the root password as requested...then nothing.  Tried again.  the same.

Apparently its not launching and I can't fins any messages in /var/log/messages.

Any ideas ?

Reboot your system (mostly this works).

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Re: Synaptic fails to launch
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2012, 12:11:49 PM »
Have a look at System Activities - Processes (Ctrl+Esc in KDE) ......  and if kdesu;kdesud  are running kill them, then try again.

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Re: Synaptic fails to launch
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2012, 07:31:01 PM »
Quote from: marrandy on November 27, 2012, 11:18:38 AM
A couple of days ago, I updated the system.  Everything seemed to go fine.

Today, I tried synaptic again.  I entered the root password as requested...then nothing.  Tried again.  the same.

Apparently its not launching and I can't fins any messages in /var/log/messages.

Any ideas ?

If all else fails try launching it from a console window and see what error(s) it is displaying.
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Re: Synaptic fails to launch
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2012, 05:36:28 AM »
Funnily enough its working now.

I don't know why as it was shutdown daily, after I updated it (I have reconsidered the date and I updated on Thursday).  That means it has been shutdown and booted 5 times when the event happened.  I will see if it happens again or if it was just a weird quirk.

Thanks for the responses.  I'll tuck the advice away for the future.
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