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Siduction Forum => Software - Support => Topic started by: eriefisher on 2020/05/09, 17:32:35
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I have been having an issue the last few days and finally figured it out. Every time I opened Synaptic and selected Settings>>Repositories my laptop would just freeze up. It would sometimes stop and start slowly. I could see in the panel, the cpu usage was not getting pinned(when it would actually be moving). I was able, a couple times, to get to VT2 and log in, run top and see that synaptic was using 85-90% of my memory(4Gig). After some poking around I found /etc/apt/sources.list was huge, 156mb with thousands of lines with just ###### over and over again. I took it out of the equation and everything returned to normal. I assume Synaptic was just trying to read the file.
Has anyone seen this? Any idea where it would have come from?
(https://i.imgur.com/pSmB1Fy.png)
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Have seen it for many years. I trim mine whenever I think about it. Have no idea what causes it. Possible whenever you edit the sources list.
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Thanks, I guess I will have to keep an eye on it. Never came across it before.
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apt purge synaptic
Really shouldn't be using that in a sid environment.
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I'm fine with that. Is just a convenience really. But that doesn't solve the issue. I would not have found it had I didn't use synaptic. I'm not sure what would cause this type of issue.
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A package that can mess up your system I wouldn't call a convenience
It's been like that for decades, one of the many reasons it shouldn't be used in sid, stable is a different ballgame :)
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Got it.