[Resolved] Upon opening Synaptic: cpu at 100% and stays there.

lucesei · 2009-01-28 00:02:15

Hi, I have this problem both with crunchbang and cruncheee (v. 8.10.2), running on a desktop comp. and on an eeePc 701 4g.

When I launch synaptic package manager, the cpu shoots to 100% and stays fixed there, even when I close the app. The problem seems to be caused by python: if I terminate it, the cpu goes back to normal. I have tried both reinstalling the distro, and using it live, but to no avail: the problem is there no matter what I do.

Any help/suggestions? Strangely I seem to be the only one experiencing this problem, as I have found no posts about it.

Thanks a lot for your support,

Luca

logone · 2009-01-28 00:19:49

hae u try to launch sinaptic from a terminal? in that case u see some errors, maybe help.

lucesei · 2009-01-28 00:52:50

logone wrote:

hae u try to launch sinaptic from a terminal? in that case u see some errors, maybe help.

Thx for the suggestion, but no luck there: sudo synaptic ask for the pass (obviously), then synaptic starts without adding a single word to the command line, so everything looks to be running smoothly. YET...there u are, cpu at 100% !!

Zaxxon · 2009-01-28 01:16:40

Try running 'sudo apt-get update' from a Terminal and see if you get any error message, possibly from dpkg about any screwed up packages on your system.

lucesei · 2009-01-28 02:12:05

SOLVED THE PROBLEM. Thx for the though.
What I did is I manually executed (as root) 'update-apt-xapian-index' in /usr/sbin.
I think this script is normally executed in the background upon launching synaptic, but for some reason it would go on forever, without ever finishing, thus using most of the resources. Executing it manually did the trick.

Bye, Luca

Zaxxon · 2009-01-28 02:16:23

Glad you figured it out! Great also, that you posted back for others that might run into this issue!

--zaxxon

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#1 2009-01-28 00:02:15

[Resolved] Upon opening Synaptic: cpu at 100% and stays there.

#2 2009-01-28 00:19:49

Re: [Resolved] Upon opening Synaptic: cpu at 100% and stays there.

#3 2009-01-28 00:52:50

Re: [Resolved] Upon opening Synaptic: cpu at 100% and stays there.

#4 2009-01-28 01:16:40

Re: [Resolved] Upon opening Synaptic: cpu at 100% and stays there.

#5 2009-01-28 02:12:05

Re: [Resolved] Upon opening Synaptic: cpu at 100% and stays there.

#6 2009-01-28 02:16:23

Re: [Resolved] Upon opening Synaptic: cpu at 100% and stays there.

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