Re: Synaptic and apt problems...

[Phil Schaffner <P R Schaffner IEEE org>]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:54 -0600, Kim Lux wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 00:42 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > If any rpmlib application crashes or is killed with -9 you need to do
> > 'rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*', otherwise rpm operations will hang.
> 
> Still no joy.  Synaptic still crashes.  I am also rebuilding the rpm
> database.
> 
> The only way I can get synaptic to run at all is to remove it and re
> install it.  Then it runs once, but I can't do anything or it will
> crash.

Have you tried yum or smart?

Phil