Comment 5 for bug 150434

Starting both synaptic & gnome-app-install from terminal show no errors, but they both hang right after starting.

Trying apt-get first gets a complaint about dpgk lock, which is resolved with "sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock" - but running apt-get or aptitude a second time results in either hanging at "Reading package lists... 0%" Ctrl+C doesn't stop them, and kiling gnome-terminal leaves dpgk locked again.

sources.list looks entirely standard:
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deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Beta i386 (20070925.2)]/ gutsy main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
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"ps aux | grep synaptic" shows:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ps aux | grep synaptic
ubuntu 14828 0.0 0.4 13440 5028 ? S 02:47 0:00 gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic
root 14829 0.0 1.3 34052 13620 ? Ds 02:47 0:03 /usr/sbin/synaptic
root 15467 0.0 1.2 33944 13372 ? Ds 05:18 0:00 synaptic
ubuntu 15698 0.0 0.0 2972 752 pts/3 R+ 05:36 0:00 grep synaptic

"sudo killall -9 synaptic" gets:
Killed synaptic(14829) with signal 9
Killed synaptic(15467) with signal 9

...but running the px aux command again gets *exactly* the same results. Attempting to run "sudo killall -9 15467" gets:
15467: no process killed

Bad LiveCD, or bug in Gutsy?