I can confirm it too. Edgy i386 ran on VirtualBox VM under WinXP. I did some investigation and here are the results:
Synaptic works fine when proxy settings are specified in a 'user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' form either in apt.conf or in synaptic gui (prefs -> network). Although it's somewhat confusing, because synaptic doesn't show if it is using settings from apt.conf (prefs -> network set to direct) and all works. It will be better to store settings from gui directly to apt.conf, or to provide a third option 'use proxy settings from apt.conf'. Now I set proxy settings in gnome config (prefs -> network proxy). And this is where the real fun is :) If specified in the form 'user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]', then synaptic works fine! But apt-get fails! Because 'env' says, that var http_proxy is set to 'user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Now let's start synaptic from the terminal: 'gksu synamptic' - it fails as apt-get. Now I specify 'proxy.com' in gnome network proxy settings (creditentials are specified now only in 'details'). 'env' says, that http_proxy is set to 'user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and now apt-get works. But synaptic doesn't (407 proxy auth required)! And when started from term as 'gksu synaptic' - guess what? Of course, it works! :) The real mess, right? But here is more: (don't know - maybe it's better to file it as a new bug) All previos test were done with a login and password generously provided by my collegue. Because I didn't manage to succed with my own creditentials. The reason is that my pwd contains following sequence of characters like '&%f)'. When such pwd is specified in apt.conf nor synaptic, neither apt-get work. When specified as env var all is fine. So, I think, that apt-get (and synaptic) doesn't handle some characters correctly. When specified through apt.conf synaptic even showed (in it's prefs -> network) some ugly special symbol instead of '&%f)' in the middle of my password - as it handled it like a html entity. Hope, that my comments will help you to resolve the problem. -- No good proxy conf, for synaptic... https://launchpad.net/bugs/56655 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
