Happens to me; also running x64. Is anyone seeing this in 32-bit mode? More detail, though this should be easy enough for a developer to do as well.
strace shows that during this "hang" Synaptic is furiously fstatting the repository caches: stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29002, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26734222, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29002, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26734222, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29002, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26734222, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0 -- Order by "Supported" Column Slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/165181 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