Problems with mintinstall v. 7.9.5

[DorianB2017]

Hello! A possible bug ... After I use Bleach ("Bleach as root" and "Bleach") for clean temporary and unnecessary files (Cache, Temporary Files, etc.), when I want to install everyone in mintinstall v. 7.9.5 (Software Manager), it appear a circle permanently and/or often it gets stuck/freeze. I use Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.0.1 Tara x64 (clean installed) in Romanian language.

(See the attached image .) Sorry for my bad English.

Best regards, Dorian B.

[mtwebster]

What options do you typically run bleachbit with? I installed it to try to reproduce it.

You can definitely mess things up with mintinstall if your run the cleaner while mintinstall is open. If it happens you just need to kill mintinstall and restart it. It should recover.

This program relies quite a bit on the contents of some files in ~/.cache and elsewhere. Without knowing what precisely you're deleting, all I can suggest is don't ever do it while mintinstall is open. If it happens in other occasions, please provide more detail.

[DorianB2017]

Hi! I always use Bleachbit (v. 2.0) with all closed programs. I have put the following options to Bleachbit (as root):

• APT:         - autoremove;         - autoclean;         - clean;         - package list;
• Firefox with all options;
• System:         - Cache;         - Clipboard;         - Trash;         - Invalid desktop files;         - Temporary files;         - Old journals (logs);         - List of recent documents, and at Bleachbit (non-root):
• apt:
  • autoremove;
  • autoclean;
  • clean;
  • package list;
• Firefox with all options;
• Google Chrome with all options;
• System:
  • Cache;
  • Clipboard;
  • Trash;
  • Invalid desktop files;
  • Temporary files;
  • Old journals (logs);
  • List of recent documents. More recently, mintinstall v. 7.9.5 crashes. After 2 app searches and entered into their information, mintinstall (flatpak) gets stuck. From what I see, Bleachbit is in conflict with mintinstall (flatpak) (possibly with the cache of mintinstall).

Sorry for my bad English.

[ewangi]

Just a note that, in my experience anyway, it is always a good idea to reboot your system after running Bleachbit, whether you have closed all visibly running applications or not. There are always processes running in the background that may be adversely affected by files having been deleted by Bleachbit.

[xenopeek]

This can be reproduced by running Bleachbit as root and deleting the APT package list (the package cache).

With the package cache deleted you can't install packages. Not with Software Manager, Synaptic or apt. You'll first need to refresh the package cache, restoring all the files Bleachbit needlessly deleted. Basically run apt update or same action through one of the package managers.

[marco4mp]

@DorianB2017 Does the problem still exist?