Package: apt Version: 0.6.46 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: breaks unrelated software
Feel free to change severity as fit - "critical" is the highest but being unable to upgrade or install packages breaks the whole system as it gets more and more outdated with time. And of course I don't get security updates this way either. "apt-get update" seems to not terminate at all. It produces output like this: Get:36 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [30.0kB] Get:37 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [30.0kB] Get:38 2006-10-10-1317.34.pdiff [80.8kB] Get:39 2006-10-16-1354.47.pdiff [1160B] Get:40 2006-10-16-1354.47.pdiff [1160B] Get:41 2006-10-11-1350.40.pdiff [360B] Get:42 2006-10-11-1350.40.pdiff [36.1kB] Get:43 2006-10-11-1350.40.pdiff [36.1kB] Get:44 2006-10-13-1359.55.pdiff [807B] Get:45 2006-10-12-1433.11.pdiff [598B] Get:46 2006-10-12-1433.11.pdiff [598B] Get:47 2006-10-06-1339.35.pdiff [4878B] Get:48 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [1417B] Get:49 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [1417B] Here 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff seems to repeat over and over. Several other names do too - this never stops. apt-get forever remains at "99% Packages rred." Theoretically, this might terminate someday. But something is definitely wrong when "update" takes *much* more time than the weekly dist-upgrade takes. Installing single packages with "apt-get" still works sometimes, but this too becomes impossible as the packages referenced from my outdated package database no longer exists in the pool. I can't upgrade to the newer "apt" for example, because it isn't in the database and "update" fails. "dist-upgrade" also fail trying to fetch outdated packages. So I am stuck. Of course, this is the price of using testing+unstable. I'll try downloading the newest apt package manually and install it using dpkg. This version of "apt" is dangerous in that it 1) Gets itself stuck 2) It becomes a ddos attack on the debian servers, if many users starts unattended "apt-get update" and keep downloading forever. apt-get is indeed slow today . . . -- Package-specific info: -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- Pasted in manually, as "reporbug" crashes with some kind of unicode error when I let it include files itself: Package:* Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority:800 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -10 -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- Included manually, as reportbug otherwise crashes: #testing=etch #unstable=sid #stable=sarge deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free #Sikkerhetsoppdateringer deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free # Stable: deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free #Testing: deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free #deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-f ree #Unstable deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free #Experimental deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main #Andre som ogs<E5> distribuerer .deb-filer: #initng deb http://debian.space-based.de/debs/ experimental main #deb ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/packages/openoffice-debian testing main cont rib deb http://developer.skulelinux.no/~gautehk/ooo-deb ./ deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main #djbdns bin<E6>rpakker deb http://smarden.org/pape/Debian sarge unofficial #mozilla thunderbird prerelease deb http://people.debian.org/~asac/testing ./ #26/9 2004 DRI X #See http://www.nixnuts.net/files/README.txt deb http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./ deb-src http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./ #libdvdcss deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages apt recommends: pn debian-archive-keyring <none> (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]