Syanptic Goes To Sleep Installing Package Updates

[Austin Isler]

I have had the same problems with Synaptic. Usually my second go at it 
seems to work.

Austin

billg wrote:

>Are there issues with Synaptic 0.47?
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>I'm trying to use it to update a fresh FC1 installation. It downloads the
>many packages needed. Later, as it starts to install the downloaded
>packages, disk activity ends. (I've let it go 30 minutes with no disk
>activity and a spinning sandclock)  Process manager then reports Synaptic
>is sleeping.  At this point, I can't kill Synaptic with Process Manager,
>which itself requires a Force Quit to close. (After I enter the requested
>root password, Process Manager freezes.)  I can kill Synaptic from the
>command line.  On subsequent runs of Synaptic, it displays a very large
>error message complaining about duplicate packages.  The error message
>extends off the top and bottom of the screen, obscuring the Synaptic
>menus. At this point, Synaptic does not respond to a "Close" and I have
>to kill it manually.
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