On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:03:46PM -0500, Ivan Nestlerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.0-5 > Severity: important > > After running an update this evening, I found myself unable to use > aptitude as it kept getting stuck saying it was "Resolving dependencies". > > Basic operations on the preview screen would hang aptitude (trying to > upgrade something that was on hold, trying to put something on hold that > was broken, etc.). It was completely unusable (I had to kill it from > another window three times in a row). > > I have a large number of KDE packages on hold right now due to that > transition, so I thought maybe it was some combinatoric calculation that > was talking forever. However, aptitude doesn't peg the CPU or anything > when it is stuck like this. > > To be more specific, I start aptitude. I pressed "g". It said: > Resolving dependencies... > [Previous][Next][Appl][Close] > > This was already weird looking. Usually it suggests putting some number > of packages on hold (since 72 packages are broken from the KDE > transition). I selected "Close". > > I attempted to put a broken KDE package (akode) on hold by typing "=". > This froze aptitude (required being killed elsewhere). During this, the > bottom of the screen said: > [1(0)/...] Resolving dependencies > e: Examine (the rest of the things on this line were greyed out) > > I started it up again, pressed "g", saw the same "Resolving > dependcies..." thing again, and selected "Close" again. This type, I > tried to switching one of the packages scheduled for deletion to a purge > instead (kdelibs4c2) by pressing "_". This also hung aptitude. I > killed it again. > > I started it up again, pressed "g", saw the same "Resolving > dependcies..." thing again, and selected "Close" again. This type, I > tried to switching one of the packages on hold (kdeartwork) to be upgrade by > typing "+". This also hung aptitude. I killed it again.
Could you please send me the following files? (specifically, place a
.tar.bz2 somewhere that I can download it)
- /etc/apt
- ~/.aptitude/config
- /var/lib/apt/lists
- /var/lib/aptitude
- /var/lib/dpkg/status
Thanks,
Daniel
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