well as i issued the command you asked me to, i ran into an bug in apport on lucid. but all the sudden synaptic acts sane again.
so thanks very much for your time and sorry for any inconveniences. -- synaptic hangs in lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525569 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs