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Synaptic crashes inmediatly after being launched

Bug #889540 reported by alkayata
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

No matter if I launch synaptic from a menu, a terminal or the unity shell. No matter If I launch it as superuser or not. No matter if I launch it under gnome-shell, unity or a classic gnome session. It always crashes. If I run it form terminal it will print before exiting:

 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what(): vector::_M_range_check

However, if I try to run it from the recovery console, it works!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 12 17:03:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (29 days ago)

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alkayata (alkayata2001) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Aubrey (aubrey+launchpad) wrote :

I had the same problem on oneiric.
The solution, which worked for me, after looking at other similar (segfault) bugs was to reinstall gnome-orca (I had removed it not so long ago). I also switched the universal access screen reader and typing assistant on and off. Synaptic then started as it should and functioned correctly again.
I then removed gnome-orca again and synaptic still functions.

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 607605, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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