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Quick Search in Synaptic freezes for search terms with lots of alternatnives

Bug #282188 reported by exploder91
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt
Intrepid
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

The new Quick Search feature in Intrepid 8.10 is not functioning on a current, up to date install, 10/12/08.

When I try to do a quick search I am only able to type in two characters and then Synaptic freezes up. If I do a force quit, Synaptic appears to quit but does not. I can not start Synaptic again from the menu shortcut, nothing happens. If I try to start Synaptic from the terminal the ouput tells me that the front end is trying to start. The System Monitor shows that cpu use is at 100% and restarting the system is necessary to bring things back to normal.

Synaptic works as it should in all other respects. I apologize if this bug has already been reported but I was not able to find an existing report containing the same issues.

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Paul Broadhead (pjbroad) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in synaptic.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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FredBezies (fredbezies-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I can confirm this behaviour with Synaptic 0.62.1-ubuntu9.

It makes synaptic kinda useless.

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Fabio Colombo (stratosphere1982) wrote :

I confirm that bug testing intrepid 386 too..

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Fabio Colombo (stratosphere1982) wrote :

I have to add a thing.. for me, differently from that happens to exploder91, for me there is no way to type into the "quick search" space..
as you can see by my screenshot it seems that "quick search" space where to type don't exist..so there is no way to type nothing..
bye and thanks

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exploder91 (d-cosner) wrote :

I have reinstalled 8.10 from a daily build from 10/19 and the issue is resolved for me.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package synaptic - 0.62.1ubuntu10

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synaptic (0.62.1ubuntu10) intrepid; urgency=low

  * common/rpackagelister.cc:
    - add special handling for "-" char in the xapian
      search (thanks to kiko)
    - fix hang in quick search for huge result lists
     (like "li") LP: #282188

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:19:02 +0200

Changed in synaptic:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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