Synaptic acting up today

[Fintan]

After todays update to kde4.1.2 my synaptic is acting up when using "relaod" giving me this message:

E: The package cache file is corrupted
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Any one else getting this?

[Rog131]

Re: Synaptic acting up today

I have seen it at the first time with the Intrepid alpha, here is a bug report > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...it/+bug/257639.

One of the suspects is the packagekit:

Michael Vogt wrote on 2008-11-07

I suspect that this is a race condition between synaptic read the package cache and packagekit. Packagekit gets a org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged "cache-update" signal when synaptic finishes its reload operation. This is a bug that seems to be caused by improper locking.

[Fintan]

Re: Synaptic acting up today

Thank you. That would explain it.

I guess I'll just wait and see how everything goes. Don't really need synaptic right now. I use apt-get to update/-grade anyway.

[PJJ]

Re: Synaptic acting up today

I have experienced the same error message.

Removed Synaptic from my computer for now.

Command line will do for a while.

And Adept is working better.