On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 15:41:30 -0700 Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/15/2016 09:58 AM, Joe wrote: > >> > > > > Synaptic still broken on Sid for me, fully upgraded except for a few > > packages which won't. > > Hi Joe, why not use both testing and sid repos and get a full > upgrade, both my Sid systems are full upgraded with me using both > repos. Good luck! On my desktop sid/xfce4 machine, I do a full upgrade pretty much every day, apart from any buggy or uninstallable packages, of which I currently have five. I don't actually use Synaptic much, generally for poking around when a lot of packages won't upgrade, to find the ones which will. It runs for a few mouse actions, then dies and needs a kill -9 to remove the process. Sometimes it will run long enough to do an upgrade, which works fine. Aptitude and apt-get are both working reliably. I also usually have trouble booting from the current 4.7 kernel, so I'm mostly using 4.6. Whether the problems are related, I don't know. I can't find any smoking guns anywhere. I'm not aware of any other software which isn't working. I run PCB with the GTK interface, which is a fairly complex and demanding beast, and it doesn't seem to have any trouble. I've reported the Synaptic problem, which is fairly repeatable, but not the kernel one as I get wildly differing screen messages at the time of the crash, which suggests the fundamental fault isn't related to any of them. I can find no clues at all about that. -- Joe