topic title: Can not launch synaptic...
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#1
only thru terminal ...

a bug perhaps ?

tia !

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and how to set system time ? (use UTC)
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chrispop99
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#2
how to set system time ? (use UTC)
Control Center>System>Set Date and Time

Chris
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chrispop99
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#3
Are you running live, or installed?

I just checked 'live' and also found Synaptic won't start from the menu.

Once installed, it works as expected.

Chris
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#4
^
installed !
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chrispop99
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#5
I've installed both 32 and 64 bit at least a dozen times on four different machines during testing, and never had this problem, so I'm at a loss to suggest what has happened.

When you launch from the terminal, what messages if any does the terminal show?

Chris
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# synaptic

** (synaptic:22661): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
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dolphin_oracle
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#7
Try as regular user

gksu synaptic
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#8
dolphin_oracle wrote:Try as regular user

gksu synaptic
did work ! some little explanation ?

thx pal !
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dolphin_oracle
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#9
running graphical apps like synaptic from a root terminal *can* produce some issues with session variables that sometimes causes strange effects. gksu is a tool that makes sure that apps that launch with root permissions have all the session variables they need to display correctly. not all apps will exhibit this problem, but it seems to crop up with synaptic the most often.
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chrispop99
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#10
Could the menu entry for Synaptic be altered to

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gksu synaptic
to avoid this happening for other users, or is that too simplistic a solution?

Chris
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#11
Commitments prevent anything other than a superficial look at this at present, so the following is added just in case it proves relevant.


antiX-16-Full Stable Live ISO as shipped booted from CD


Check the menu launcher for Synaptic

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grep 'Exec=' /usr/share/applications/antix/synaptic.desktop
Exec=gksu synaptic
The command is OK


Desktop selected at GRUB boot screen=default

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cat /proc/cmdline
vga=788 lang=en_GB quiet splash=v disable=lx
When the boot process completes without displaying an error message about rox pinboard, Synaptic fails.
When the boot process completes by showing the error message about rox pinboard, Synaptic launches as expected.


Desktop selected at GRUB boot screen=rox-icewm

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cat /proc/cmdline
desktop=rox-icewm vga=788 lang=en_GB quiet splash=v disable=lx
When the boot process completes without displaying an error message about rox pinboard, Synaptic launches as expected.


The rox-pinboard error message has been reported previously. It is an intermittent state (timing issue?) that cannot be recreated on demand. That makes it difficult to be sure it is implicated. Another possibility is selecting the term"default" rather than"rox-icewm" to launch the same desktop.