Bug#479438: Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-28 Thread Eddy Petrișor
2009/1/28 Daniel Burrows : > I'd like to thank everyone who replied on these bugs over the last > couple years. Especially the people who prodded me into trying out > kernel 2.6.18-6. I've tracked down the bug, or at least I think maybe > I have. There is definitely a bug here, but it seems to

Bug#479438: Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
I'd like to thank everyone who replied on these bugs over the last couple years. Especially the people who prodded me into trying out kernel 2.6.18-6. I've tracked down the bug, or at least I think maybe I have. There is definitely a bug here, but it seems to be failing even in cases where it

Bug#479438: Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor was heard to say: > 2009/1/27 Daniel Burrows : > > This is for everyone who can reproduce the bug. > > > > Could you build a libcwidget3 with the attached patch and see what's > > produced in /tmp/cwidget.input.log when you reproduce the b

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:12:36PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor was heard to say: > reassign 479438 cwidget > forcemerge 479438 348481 431054 431688 432323 434861 462923 466254 475368 > thanks Thanks for the triage. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Bug#479438: Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Eddy Petrișor
2009/1/27 Daniel Burrows : > This is for everyone who can reproduce the bug. > > Could you build a libcwidget3 with the attached patch and see what's > produced in /tmp/cwidget.input.log when you reproduce the bug? If I > start aptitude, run dpkg once, and exit, I get this: > > Starting input th

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Eddy Petrișor
2009/1/27 Daniel Burrows : > This is for everyone who can reproduce the bug. > > Could you build a libcwidget3 with the attached patch and see what's > produced in /tmp/cwidget.input.log when you reproduce the bug? If I > start aptitude, run dpkg once, and exit, I get this: I tried to grab the

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Eddy Petrișor
reassign 479438 cwidget forcemerge 479438 348481 431054 431688 432323 434861 462923 466254 475368 thanks 2009/1/27 Jens Seidel : > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:31:34PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> >> suggest that the blocking is not visible when using the 2.6.26 kernel,= >> >> >> while you said th

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
This is for everyone who can reproduce the bug. Could you build a libcwidget3 with the attached patch and see what's produced in /tmp/cwidget.input.log when you reproduce the bug? If I start aptitude, run dpkg once, and exit, I get this: Starting input thread Creating new input thread Input

Bug#479438: Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Eddy Petrișor
2009/1/27 Rich Griffiths : > Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> >> >> microwaverich, could you test once more, just to be sure, that under >> each one of these setups aptitude blocks: >> >> 1) etch kernel (2.6.18-6-k7 - if you no longer have it, you can grab >> it from http://packages.debian.org/etch/linux-i

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Rich Griffiths
Eddy Petrișor wrote: microwaverich, could you test once more, just to be sure, that under each one of these setups aptitude blocks: 1) etch kernel (2.6.18-6-k7 - if you no longer have it, you can grab it from http://packages.debian.org/etch/linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7) official aptitude from le

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Jens Seidel
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:31:34PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > >> suggest that the blocking is not visible when using the 2.6.26 kernel,= > > >> while you said that it is. > > Only two reports? I really doubt it (search for older bugs!). At least it > > worked for me with a more recent kernel wh

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-27 Thread Eddy Petrișor
>> suggest that the blocking is not visible when using the 2.6.26 kernel,= >> while you said that it is. >=20 > Only two reports? I really doubt it (search for older bugs!). At least = it > worked for me with a more recent kernel whereas it freezed using 2.6.28= =2E Did you really mean 2.6.28 (wh

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-26 Thread Jens Seidel
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:04:17PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > There are 2 reports (1 from myself and another from somebody else) who > suggest that the blocking is not visible when using the 2.6.26 kernel, > while you said that it is. Only two reports? I really doubt it (search for older bugs!)

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-26 Thread Eddy Petrișor
(microwavwrich, please see somewhere below some paragraphs addressed to you. Thanks in advance.) 2009/1/21 Daniel Burrows : > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor > was heard to say: >> I think I have found a lead after reading a comment from another user: >> >> http://bugs.de

Bug#504063: Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor was heard to say: > I think I have found a lead after reading a comment from another user: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504063#17 > > > I installed lenny's kernel and with this kernel the bug is no longer visible >

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-20 Thread Eddy Petrișor
retitle 511708 aptitude: TUI blocks after doing one set of operations (only with etch kernel) thanks 2009/1/19 Daniel Burrows : > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:28:27PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor > was heard to say: >> Package: aptitude >> found 511708 0.4.11-2 >> thanks >> I managed to install 0.4.11-2

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:28:27PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > found 511708 0.4.11-2 > thanks > > 2009/1/17 Daniel Burrows : > > Once we have a tighter range of versions, it might be worth trying > > bisect out, but it'll be easier too. > [..] > > Here are a fe

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
I just had a realization. We don't need to mess around with bisect and recompiling; you can just grab old versions from snapshot.debian.net and see whether the bug shows up in them. Once we have a tighter range of versions, it might be worth trying bisect out, but it'll be easier too. Here

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:47:34PM -0800, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > Something that would be even better if you can manage it would be to > use "hg bisect". This will be time-consuming, but has the potential to > track down exactly what's happening, or at least what change triggered >

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:23:55AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows a scris: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor > > was heard to say: > >> I just upgraded this system yesterday to Debian Lenny from Debian Etch > >> and since the upgrade I have see

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-14 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Daniel Burrows a scris: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor > was heard to say: >> I just upgraded this system yesterday to Debian Lenny from Debian Etch >> and since the upgrade I have seen that aptitude's TUI interface blocks >> after any set of operations that is done wit

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor was heard to say: > I just upgraded this system yesterday to Debian Lenny from Debian Etch > and since the upgrade I have seen that aptitude's TUI interface blocks > after any set of operations that is done with dpkg. When the operation > fi

Bug#511708: aptitude: [etch upgrade] TUI consistently blocks after doing one set of operations

2009-01-13 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Package: aptitude Severity: serious Justification: No more than one operation, looses information, blocks the console, regression Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Hello, I just upgraded this system yesterday to Debian Lenny from Debian Etch and since the upgrade I have seen that aptitude's TUI interfa