This is still present on Karmic (with all updates). And it is not just Synaptic that crashes. But even apt-get crashes. So it is not possible to recover form this unless the cache is deleted (as specified in Hiker's comment).
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Synaptic Package Manager closes with segmentation fault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400362 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs