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 dburr...@debian.org: 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,

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 (which is

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 whereas it

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: snip 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

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 richg...@one.net: Eddy Petrișor wrote: snip 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

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#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 jenssei...@users.sf.net: 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,=

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 dburr...@debian.org: 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

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 dburr...@debian.org: 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:

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 eddy.petri...@gmail.com 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

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 eddy.petri...@gmail.com was heard to say: 2009/1/27 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org: This is for everyone who can reproduce the bug. Could you build a libcwidget3 with the attached patch and see what's produced in

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#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 dburr...@debian.org: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor eddy.petri...@gmail.com was heard to say: I think I have found a lead after reading a comment

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#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 dburr...@debian.org: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:28:27PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor eddy.petri...@gmail.com was heard to say: Package: aptitude found 511708 0.4.11-2 thanks

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 eddy.petri...@gmail.com 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

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 eddy.petri...@gmail.com was heard to say: Package: aptitude found 511708 0.4.11-2 thanks 2009/1/17 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org: Once we have a tighter range of versions, it might be worth trying bisect out, but it'll be

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.

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 eddy.petri...@gmail.com 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.

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 eddy.petri...@gmail.com 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

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 eddy.petri...@gmail.com was heard to say: Daniel Burrows a scris: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor eddy.petri...@gmail.com was heard to say: I just upgraded this system yesterday to Debian Lenny from Debian

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 dburr...@debian.org 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

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