Synaptic and apt problems...

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 17:54 -0600, Kim Lux wrote:
> I was updating my fc4 installation with synaptic when I lost my Internet
> connection.  Now I get the error below when I run synaptic.  I rebuilt
> synaptic from the latest source rpm with no change in the symptoms.
> 
> I also get a hung process when I run 'apt-get --reinstall install glibc'
> 
> How do I fix this problem ?
...
> 1818802    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/
> libpixbufloader-xpm.so

On closer inspection, [is this a test-list question and] is it gtk2 that
needs to be reloaded rather than glibc?  Advice about rpm and recovery
boot still applies.