Synaptic broken

[ecosil]

I installed PCLOS 2010.07 GNOME yesterday on a laptop and everything worked fine. Today I typed an incorrect password for opening synaptic and from that moment on it no longer opens. It hangs while it is trying to open. I tried the following based on what I read in previous posts on this topic:
1. rebooting: no effect
2. logging on as root: same thing
3. type in terminal as root: "apt-get --reinstall install synaptic" hangs, nothing happens
4. type in terminal as root: "dbus-launch synaptic" synaptic tries to open but hangs again and I see the following comments in the terminal:

(synaptic: 4038): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id 'References'
(synaptic: 4038): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

Doe anybody have a suggestion for what I can do other than reinstalling the entire distro?

[AndrzejL]

Welcome to the forum Dude. Enjoy Your time here.

Quick search with synaptic hangs term returns this.

This solved me and many others.

Hope this helps.

Andy

[Ramchu]

http://pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,76686.0.html

This one tells you how to reinstall synaptic

[ecosil]

Welcome to the forum Dude. Enjoy Your time here.

Quick search with synaptic hangs term returns this.

This solved me and many others.

Hope this helps.

Andy

Thanks, Andy. It worked. I did:

[root@hostname ~]# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
[root@hostname ~]# rpm -vv --rebuilddb

and synaptic was back.

ecosil

[horusfalcon]

If I might suggest it, the original post in the thread is the best place to edit the subject line to mark {SOLVED}.

Glad to see you got this sorted out.

Later On,
D