Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer,
After doing an update (pressing "u"), if an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list was invalid or the server did not respond, then upon returning from the screen of package list download progress bars aptitude displays "Loading cache" in a box and then stops and makes any further progress. The program is somewhat responsive, for example, pressing "q" presents an option to quit the program, but it is impossible to use the program to install or upgrade any software until all servers in sources.list are responding again. This might negatively impact a first-time install if a bad mirror is chosen. How to reproduce: put a typo in /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g., replace "stretch" with "strecth", run aptitude, press "u". -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.3 Compiler: g++ 6.1.1 20160802 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.8.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160625 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe0f721000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f85971bb000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f8596f8b000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f8596d60000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f8596b59000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f859685c000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f8596557000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f859633f000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f8596126000) libboost_system.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f8595f21000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f8595b1d000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f8595900000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f859557e000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8595279000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f8595063000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8594cc1000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8594abd000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f85948a6000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f859468a000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f859447a000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f8594257000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f8594044000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f8593e3c000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f8593c36000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055ca80b6f000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.3-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.3~rc1 ii libboost-filesystem1.61.0 1.61.0+dfsg-2.1 ii libboost-iostreams1.61.0 1.61.0+dfsg-2.1 ii libboost-system1.61.0 1.61.0+dfsg-2.1 ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.1.1-11 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160625-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.8.0-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.13.0-1 ii libstdc++6 6.1.1-11 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160625-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.23-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-10 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.3-1 pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.35 -- no debconf information