synaptics package maneger

[Nils Kassube]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2015 06:37:35 Nils Kassube did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > I remember that I had similar 60 sec boot pauses some time ago. I
> > found that I had a stale entry in /etc/network/interfaces for eth2,
> > but at that time the network card for eth2 had been removed. So I
> > would suggest that you carefully check the interfaces file for
> > mistakes.
> 
> Attached, 230 bytes.  Interfaces.d is empty.

That file looks fine to me, so I think the reason for your delay is 
probably somewhere else.

> I have taken a couple screenshots to show what I am saying about
> synaptic, and while I was at it, tried a ctl+g, and a ctl+G, no
> response to either. The second shot also shows the forced reinstall
> of synaptic, and what you see in the first shot is the re-installed
> version.

The second screenshot shows that the synaptic version comes from the 
mint repo, so we can't help you here. Except: You could remove that 
synaptic version and install the version from the Ubuntu repo.


Nils