On Friday 22 December 2006 23:48, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nigel Henry <cave.dnb <at> tiscali.fr> writes: > > tried to open synaptic as root, and it opened, and about 3 secs later > > crashed. > > Known bug, there are already several bug reports about this. > > To fix this: > rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin > (needs root privileges, so use su or sudo). > > It is likely that apt had the RPM database locked while crashing, in which > case you'll also have to: > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* > (needs root privileges again). > WARNING: DON'T remove any files in the /var/lib/rpm directory which do not > start with an underscore. If you zap the Packages file, you won't be able > to rebuild the RPM database, so you'll have to reinstall. > > Kevin Kofler Thanks a lot Kevin, that seems to have fixed it. I'll have to write these fixes down, just in case. All the best. Nigel.
