Opening/launching Synaptic prevents a reboot
by edhe1 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5PDDH)
I am using Linux Mint 20.2, with a Cinammon Desktop.
Synaptic would not launch from Menu.
I tried a reboot, but it hung up at a Console terminal asking for a Login.
This result repeated several times.
After a fresh install of Linux I did sudo apt install LXDE.
I logged into LXDE; and there Synaptic launched from the Menu.
I logged back into Cinammon; did a reboot, and got that same Console Window.
I tried this again: with the same result.
Opening synaptic somehow causes this problem.
Having learned my lesson, I reinstalled Linux; but this time I will not try to launch synaptic, from either the Menu, or the xterm.
Instead I will install a program with sudo apt-get install xxxxxx'
Synaptic would not launch from Menu.
I tried a reboot, but it hung up at a Console terminal asking for a Login.
This result repeated several times.
After a fresh install of Linux I did sudo apt install LXDE.
I logged into LXDE; and there Synaptic launched from the Menu.
I logged back into Cinammon; did a reboot, and got that same Console Window.
I tried this again: with the same result.
Opening synaptic somehow causes this problem.
Having learned my lesson, I reinstalled Linux; but this time I will not try to launch synaptic, from either the Menu, or the xterm.
Instead I will install a program with sudo apt-get install xxxxxx'