On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. > > Vim, for instance is unusable. > > > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies, > > broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but > > aptitude > > starts "resolving dependencies" and it soon uses up all the available RAM, > > then all the available swap and the system slows down (thrashing) and then > > freezes. > > Did you try `dpkg --audit`?
yes, it returns immediately with no errors and no output. I have tried 'aptitude search '-b' and it returns a list of broken packages. I have manually removed a few and am now down to 51 broken packages, but I'm afraid that even if I remove all the broken packages, aptitude is still going to behave the same way while attempting to resolve all the dependencies and never finish. What would be nice is some command that would install the dependencies of the broken packages, but would that get into the same loop of resolving dependencies that never finishes? > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Thanks for replying. Augustine