Synaptic Package Manager keeps crashing

Question

Synaptic keeps crashing. When I open it, it asks for the sudo password. I give the password, then the synaptic window flashes for less than a second and then goes away.

What's wrong?

After seeing this problem I uninstalled synaptic using apt-get. Uninstalled, cleaned, removed, auto-removed, purged... every possible option from apt-get.

Then I tried installing synaptic from scratch. Still no luck.

Help please! I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 yesterday.

I also removed the ~/.synaptic folder -- no luck.

Here is the terminal output:

$ sudo synaptic
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what():  vector::_M_range_check

Solution 1

Solved it

from this link in ubuntuforums.org. In the post, Jsonwco writes:

It appears that it's related to accessibility settings. I was able to fix this problem on my system by opening Universal Access, enabling then disabling the screen reader, then opening Synaptic again.

Solution 2

Try:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility false

It worked for me.

Comments

[Admin]

I have the same problem and have yet no idea why it happens, might be a bug from a recent update. But i have a workaround for you: if you open it with "sudo synaptic", at least for me it works.

[Admin]

hey @Dominik, i have added my sudo synaptic output of the terminal in the edit....... no luck.

[Admin]

solve it.... posted the answer the question update ... check it out

[Admin]

Do not post the answer IN the question put it as A proper Answer below!.

[user1089705]

Toggling the on-screen keyboard under accessibility settings worked for me. Thanks.

[Rakib]

yup....... this link follows to the answer in the bug discussion of Synaptic at launchpad bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/607605/comments/6

[emtin4]

thanks just solved my problem, hope developers clear this bug..

[v2r]

The problem prevails in Ubuntu 18.0.4 and the screen-reader on/off option does not work!!