Bug#744255: aptitude has issues installing or purging a specific package - gfxboot-themes Package: aptitude
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Hi shirish,
2014-04-12 00:52 shirish शिरीष:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.10-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to install gfxboot-themes when during the install it
kinda hung while installing.
$ sudo aptitude install gfxboot-themes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gfxboot-themes
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 92.5 MB will be used.
Get: 1 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ jessie/main gfxboot-themes
all 4.5.2-1.1-2 [11.0 MB]
Fetched 11.0 MB in 8min 32s (21.4 kB/s)
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
D01: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D01: ensure_statoverrides: new, (re)loading
Selecting previously unselected package gfxboot-themes.
(Reading database ... 453773 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gfxboot-themes_4.5.2-1.1-2_all.deb ...
D01: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed
Unpacking gfxboot-themes (4.5.2-1.1-2) ...
D01: process_archive updating info directory
D01: generating infodb hashfile
D01: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
Setting up gfxboot-themes (4.5.2-1.1-2) ...
D01: deferred_configure updating conffiles
It comes at that last line and just hanged there. I waited for quite
some time but nothing happened, it kinda stuck there.
I then tried to purge it and that too became stuck :-
$ sudo aptitude purge gfxboot-themes -y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gfxboot-themes{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 92.5 MB will be freed.
As can be seen it is stuck there. I did check that the installation happened.
$ apt-show-versions -a gfxboot-themes
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 install ok installed
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net
No experimental version
gfxboot-themes:all/jessie 4.5.2-1.1-2 uptodate
Any ideas would be good. Looking forward to know what might have gone wrong.
This looks to me as a problem with the package installations /
uninstallation scripts. If the scripts do strange things and hang,
there is not much that aptitude can do there, until there is a new
version of the package that has the scripts working properly and solves
the mess.
It looks like this package had serious issues at the time, c.f. [1]. I
don't know if the issue is related, though.
In any case, could you purge the package in the end, after perhaps
upgrading to a new version of the package, or did the problem continue
for a while / until now?
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752231
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Bug#744255: aptitude has issues installing or purging a specific package - gfxboot-themes Package: aptitude
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.10-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to install gfxboot-themes when during the install it
kinda hung while installing.
$ sudo aptitude install gfxboot-themes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gfxboot-themes
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 92.5 MB will be used.
Get: 1 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ jessie/main gfxboot-themes
all 4.5.2-1.1-2 [11.0 MB]
Fetched 11.0 MB in 8min 32s (21.4 kB/s)
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
D01: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D01: ensure_statoverrides: new, (re)loading
Selecting previously unselected package gfxboot-themes.
(Reading database ... 453773 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gfxboot-themes_4.5.2-1.1-2_all.deb ...
D01: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed
Unpacking gfxboot-themes (4.5.2-1.1-2) ...
D01: process_archive updating info directory
D01: generating infodb hashfile
D01: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
Setting up gfxboot-themes (4.5.2-1.1-2) ...
D01: deferred_configure updating conffiles
It comes at that last line and just hanged there. I waited for quite
some time but nothing happened, it kinda stuck there.
I then tried to purge it and that too became stuck :-
$ sudo aptitude purge gfxboot-themes -y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gfxboot-themes{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 92.5 MB will be freed.
As can be seen it is stuck there. I did check that the installation happened.
$ apt-show-versions -a gfxboot-themes
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 install ok installed
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net
No experimental version
gfxboot-themes:all/jessie 4.5.2-1.1-2 uptodate
Any ideas would be good. Looking forward to know what might have gone wrong.
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.10 compiled at Feb 20 2014 17:26:22
Compiler: g++ 4.8.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.12.0
NCurses version 5.9
libsigc++ version: 2.2.11
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140118
cwidget version: 0.5.17
Apt version: 4.12.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fff5adfe000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.12 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0x7fdc2c41)
libncursesw.so.5 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
(0x7fdc2c1db000)
libtinfo.so.5 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
(0x7fdc2bfb)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x7fdc2bdab000)
libcwidget.so.3 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x7fdc2baa4000)
libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 =
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x7fdc2b847000)
libxapian.so.22 = /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x7fdc2b449000)
libz.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x7fdc2b231000)
libsqlite3.so.0 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x7fdc2af74000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 =
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0
(0x7fdc2ad5a000)
libpthread.so.0 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x7fdc2ab3d000)
libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(0x7fdc2a838000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x7fdc2a535000)
libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
(0x7fdc2a31f000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7fdc29f75000)
libutil.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x7fdc29d72000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x7fdc29b6e000)
libbz2.so.1.0 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0
(0x7fdc2995d000)
liblzma.so.5 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x7fdc2973a000)
libuuid.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x7fdc29534000)
librt.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x7fdc2932c000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7fdc2cdae000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.6.10-1
ii libapt-pkg4.120.9.16.1
ii libboost-iostreams1.54.0 1.54.0-5
ii libc6 2.18-4
