On 3 May 2001, Forrest English wrote: > grickle:~# dpkg --configure -a > dpkg: /home/doogie/debian/mine/dpkg/v1_9/dpkg-1.9.4/main/packages.c:191: > process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. > Aborted > > due to earlier nastyness with dpkg segfaulting and stuff, i've got a > bunch of packages that just didn't install correctly. so now whenever i > try and apt anything, or do the above... i get that message. > > what in the heck is going on? without dpkg, life is pretty dull....
It looks like ya found a dependency loop. Figure out which packages are involved, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to break the loop (pkg A depends on B, which depends on A - just remove one of the dependencies), file bug reports against the packages involved. - Bruce