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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0004289Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2017-10-06 04:092017-10-06 04:58
Reporterbroomdodger Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionnot fixable 
Summary0004289: synaptic Segmentation fault
Description

kali light amd64

After recent apt update && apt upgrade

Trying to open synaptic gui
it starts to open
then disappears

sudo synaptic
Segmentation fault

Steps To Reproduce

try to open synaptic gui
it starts to open
then disappears

Also tried from cli same symptom
sudo synaptic
Segmentation fault

sudo dmesg | grep -i synaptic

[ 24.267279] traps: synaptic[815] general protection ip:55e1775f70ae sp:7ffcbc215e70 error:0 in synaptic[55e17759c000+b3000]
[ 190.324064] traps: synaptic[941] general protection ip:56025bb9e0ae sp:7fff5fa53fb0 error:0 in synaptic[56025bb43000+b3000]

Activities

broomdodger

broomdodger

2017-10-06 04:38

reporter   ~0007478

I have been using the same kali light amd64 for many months.

Just now I did the following:

sudo apt purge synaptic
sudo apt autoremove

then reboot and:

sudo apt install synaptic
sudo synaptic

and also opened the synaptic gui from the system menu

it now seems to work!
rhertzog

rhertzog

2017-10-06 04:58

administrator   ~0007479

You fixed your problem but you made it impossible to track down the bug. When you have a segfault, you should install the debug symbols and run the program in gdb to generate a backtrace.

https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-10-06 04:09 broomdodger New Issue
2017-10-06 04:38 broomdodger Note Added: 0007478
2017-10-06 04:58 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2017-10-06 04:58 rhertzog Status new => closed
2017-10-06 04:58 rhertzog Resolution open => not fixable
2017-10-06 04:58 rhertzog Note Added: 0007479