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synaptic: GLib CRITICAL: g child watch add full: assertion pid > 0 failed

Asked by Wim

The moment Synaptic begins installing downloaded files,
the first line in its Terminal Window is always:

(synaptic:2179): GLib CRITICAL **: g child watch add full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed

After this line Synaptic start reading-in the Database.
All seems to work OK. And all programs are installed/updated...

This behaviour is on several different PCs that were upgraded from 12.04LTS to 14.04LTS,
running Xubuntu with XFCE4

Any suggestions ?
Thanks in advance !

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Is it ok with apt-get ?
Is software centre ok ?

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

I suspect that you have encountered the following bugreport:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1282542

It seems to be just a nuisance, not a show stopper bug....

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Wim (launchpad-xs4all) said : 		#3

Andrew and Marc,
thanks for your answers (both very active on answers.Launchpad)

I did both
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get update
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade

And then no error-warning, see below.
I understand that this is a know bug; but i want to show my answers to Andrews question.
So it seems a typical Synaptic-behaviour.

Greetings,
Wim

# -- F Y I :
# -- <Begin-Partial-ScreenCopy>

Get:10 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libgtk-3-bin i386 3.10.8-0ubuntu1.6 [18,0 kB]
4143 kB opgehaald in 30s (135 kB/s)
(Database inlezen ... 198540 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libapt-pkg4.12_1.0.1ubuntu2.9_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libapt-pkg4.12:i386 (1.0.1ubuntu2.9) over (1.0.1ubuntu2.8) ...
Instellen van libapt-pkg4.12:i386 (1.0.1ubuntu2.9) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
(Database inlezen ... 198540 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../apt_1.0.1ubuntu2.9_i386.deb ...
Unpacking apt (1.0.1ubuntu2.9) over (1.0.1ubuntu2.8) ...

# -- </End-Of_Partial-ScreenCopy>

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Wim (launchpad-xs4all) said : 		#4

I close this question.

Read what Marc Rijckenberg said on 2015-07-31 ( #2).
To be continued at Bug-Report 12 82 542

Thanks!