I've traced this issue to a value in /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf :
Synaptic "" {
ViewMode "3";
showWelcomeDialog "0";
LastSearchType "1";
closeZvt "true";
vpanedPos "214";
hpanedPos "152";
windowWidth "1280";
windowHeight "947";
windowX "0";
windowY "30";
ToolbarState "2";
Maximized "1";
Install-Recommends "1";
AskForUpdateAfterSrcChange "0";
update "" {
last "1316901731";
type "0";
};
ShowAllPkgInfoInMain "true";
AskRelated "true";
OneClickOnStatusActions "false";
delAction "3";
upgradeType "1";
undoStackSize "20";
UseTerminal "false";
AskQuitOnProceed "false";
useUserFont "0";
useUserTerminalFont "0";
statusColumnPos "0";
statusColumnVisible "1";
supportedColumnPos "1";
supportedColumnVisible "1";
nameColumnPos "2";
nameColumnVisible "1";
sectionColumnPos "3";
sectionColumnVisible "0";
componentColumnPos "4";
componentColumnVisible "0";
instVerColumnPos "5";
instVerColumnVisible "1";
availVerColumnPos "6";
availVerColumnVisible "1";
instSizeColumnPos "7";
instSizeColumnVisible "1";
downloadSizeColumnPos "8";
downloadSizeColumnVisible "0";
descrColumnPos "9";
descrColumnVisible "1";
color-install "#8A8AE2E23434";
color-reinstall "#4E4E9A9A0606";
color-upgrade "#FCFCE9E94F4F";
color-downgrade "#ADAD7F7FA8A8";
color-remove "#EFEF29292929";
color-purge "#A4A400000000";
color-available "";
color-available-locked "#A4A400000000";
color-installed-updated "";
color-installed-outdated "";
color-installed-locked "#A4A400000000";
color-broken "";
color-new "";
UseStatusColors "true";
CleanCache "false";
AutoCleanCache "true";
delHistory "-1";
useProxy "0";
httpProxy "";
httpProxyPort "3128";
ftpProxy "";
ftpProxyPort "3128";
noProxy "";
DefaultDistro "maverick";
};
The bit with DefaultDistro "maverick"; was causing this issue for me.
For a quick one line solution you can run the following command:
release=`lsb_release -a 2>1| grep Codename| awk '{print $2}'`;for file
in /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf $HOME/.synaptic/synaptic.conf ; do sudo
sed -i "s/DefaultDistro \".*;/DefaultDistro \"$release\";/g" $file;
done;
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Short after upgrade, Synaptic failed to open but apt-get still works
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