On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:24:40 -0500 Ryan Colgan <mr.ipod1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Package: synaptic
> Version: 0.83+b1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When attempting to start Synaptic on GNOME Wayland, it fails to
start. When
> attempting to run as root via sudo from a terminal, the following error
> appears:
>
> ryan@ArchibaldColgan:~$ sudo synaptic
> No protocol specified
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
>
> (synaptic:30717): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> APT prefers testing-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages synaptic depends on:
> ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1
> ii libapt-inst2.0 1.2.6
> ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.6
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
> ii libc6 2.21-9
> ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.6-1
> ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1
> ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3
> ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-11
> ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.3-1.2
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-3
> ii libgnutls30 3.4.9-2
> ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.8-1
> ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
> ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
> ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-11
> ii libvte-2.91-0 0.42.4-1
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
> ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-3
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> Versions of packages synaptic recommends:
> ii gksu 2.0.2-9
> ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2498-1
> ii policykit-1 0.105-14.1
> ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6
> ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1
>
> Versions of packages synaptic suggests:
> ii apt-xapian-index 0.47+nmu2
Check this commit.
<https://github.com/mvo5/synaptic/commit/197c42c6844c464c0be27d1b55e81566e8de5729>
Looks like it is fixed on version 0.84.3
