When I upgraded Synaptic to the 0.70~pre1 version, I noticed that the
quick search field suddenly became unselectable at all for me (never
really used it much personally, but I'm reporting this for the people
that do), as well as what appears to be a rather nasty visual glitch
as well. I've attached a screenshot of the window itself in case this
helps.

I can't tab to this field or click on it, which makes it completely
unusable for me. Switching between the various toolbar options doesn't
fix this either.

Here's what I'm currently using:

Thanks, could you quickly check if you have the apt-xapian-index
package installed? Its a recommends to synaptic. I guess it should
really add a explaination if that was the reason.

Cheers,
 Michael

Forwarding this to the bugtracker, as it took until now for me to
realize that it wasn't going to the bugtracker (my fault). The source
of the problem has been found.
Ah, now it works after running that command. However, I didn't see a
rebuilding search index just from installing the package itself.

As for the output:
xapianDoIndexUpdate()
xapainIndexNeedsUpdate()
xapian outdated 2792
running update-apt-xapian-index
xapianIndexUpdateFinished: 0

Hi,

I have a build on an amd64 box and this problem exists. On my x86 box with an
almost identical build, the problem does not exist.  I installed the apt-
xapian-index package and this didn't solve the problem on my amd64 box,
although I checked and the package was already automatically installed on my
x86 box and this doesn't have the problem.

I issued the command synaptic -o Debug::Synaptic::Xapian=true, and this cured
the problem and allowed me to type text into the search box. Unfortunately
there is still some kind of line or shadow above the box, which doesn't look
like it should be there. I guess this is filed as a different bug.

Please let me know if I can help any further.

Many thanks,

Chris.