[Bug 372526] Re: memory leaks? synaptic? results in bad installs

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The same behavior is being reported on a couple of ubuntuforum threads:

 (64bit Jaunty) Frequent Filesystem Corruption
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7305952#post7305952 

random lockups with disk corruption
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7305825#post7305825

** Summary changed:

- memory leaks? synaptic? results in bad installs
+ 64-bit jaunty has frequent filesystem corruption

** Description changed:

  I'm not enough of an expert to know why this problem is happening,
  whether it relates to backports or just plain jaunty, or which aspect of
  synaptic is involved. It seems serious enough to need some expert
  attention, so that's why the bug report.  My system is a Core 2 Duo
- P8400 2.26GHz, 3GB RAM, Intel GMA X4500 graphics, running Jaunty and
+ P8400 2.26GHz, 4GB RAM, Intel GMA X4500 graphics, running Jaunty and
  Intrepid in a dual boot setup.
  
  I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, which went fine, and started installing
  other programs using Synaptic (Thunderbird, vlc, etc.). (At that point,
  it was all Jaunty.)  The install failed, and when I rebooted I was told
  to run fsck.  There were a few hundred bad inodes and god-knows-what-
  all.  The system came back up.  Things seemed okay, and I continued
  customizing.  Same problem, only this time gdm blew up and I wound up
  having to do a clean install, which was and is a major pain.
  
  I figured I had a failing hard drive, and replaced it.  I started over,
  installed a few things with apt-get, No problem.  Then I used Synaptic
  to install Firefox 3.5.  Error messages about a lack of xulrunner-1.9 in
  /usr/bin.  The program itself was there, but the link was missing.
  Also, was again told to run fsck on startup and had a few dozen bad
  inodes and whatnot.  Once the system was back up,  I put the xulrunner
  link in by hand.  No more error messages.  Then I tried Thunderbird
  again, and Synaptic again didn't put a link in /usr/bin, desktop
  integration was bad, and the program wouldn't start.
  
  I used the command line dpkg to purge it and reinstalled with apt-get.
  No problems.
  
  That's when I started to think Synaptic had been the source of all my
  problems.  I've since installed using apt-get in terminal: vlc, gthumb,
  ufraw, which all have lists of dependencies as long as your arm, and
  they all installed without a hitch.  No problems on bootup either.
  
  Assuming this issue isn't somehow unique to me, I hope this helps track
  down what it is.
  
  Update: May 8th.  Update-manager wouldn't load.  It flashed up briefly
  and vanished.  Under Hardy, I seem to remember having a problem with
  gksudo.  Could something related have resurfaced?
  
  Also, I used Firefox 3.5b4.  It froze up the whole system on more than
  one occasion, requiring a hard restart.  And on those occasions I had
  the same bad inode mess that required running fsck before the partition
  would boot.  I'm pretty sure both synaptic and update-manager had
  problems after a reboot without FF running, but I'm also pretty sure
  that sometimes it was running.
  
  I've also installed Jaunty on a Dell Latitude D630 (horrible machine, I
  don't recommend it!) Intel Core Duo T9300, 2GB ram, and (I think!) ATI
  graphics.  Jaunty is running without issues on that setup.

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64-bit jaunty has frequent filesystem corruption
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372526
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