Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: snip Hmmm. That's the most recent update to the source tree. Which would mean aptitude doesn't freeze for you. Yay! We solved your problem and we didn't even change any code! :-D Did you get any freezes during your test, or did everything work for

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:16:06AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ /usr/bin/aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.11 compiled at Mar 16 2008 17:32:32 Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2) NCurses version: 5.6 libsigc++ version:

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:16:06AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ /usr/bin/aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.11 compiled at Mar 16 2008 17:32:32 Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2) NCurses version: 5.6

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
I guess we're done, Daniel. I don't know why, but it ain't broke anymore, so we can't fix it :-) I'll try something else if you want. I've learned quite a bit during this exercise and enjoyed it all. Thanks. Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org was heard to say: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:44:44AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org was heard to say: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel: I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and then got this: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good The first bad revision is: changeset: 1652:c6e9af2ee01d tag: tip

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:25:59AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Daniel: I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and then got this:

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me: dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? (Reading database ... 112547 files

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-19 17:23 +0100, microwaverich wrote: Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11 r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on 0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on *your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious what your search turns up,

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on 0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on *your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: snip Install the packages automake and autoconf and you should be set. Thanks for your help, Daniel Daniel: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile:

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. (more of that)

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org was heard to say: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 17 January 2009, microwaverich richg...@one.net wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': 3. run: aptitude update aptitude install apt aptitude install dpkg aptitude install aptitude aptitude dist-upgrade I could be completely wrong here (and I would love a correction) but I

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:56:27AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say: On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 January 2009, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': The problem is, the earliest version of aptitude which is known to be free of the bug is so old that it no longer builds with the current toolchain in Debian. And if you run hg

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I don't know if I'm up to it, but I'd love to give it a go. Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-( If I understand you correctly, I

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me: dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? (Reading database ... 112547 files and directories

aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread microwaverich
I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving properly. When I enter a single command at the command line, like: aptitude install xawtv it works fine. If I just enter 'aptitude' to start the full-screen (ncurses?) version, when it completes an install it stops

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:51:13PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving properly. When I enter a single command at the command line, like: aptitude install xawtv it works fine. If I just enter

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:51:13PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving properly. When I enter a single command at the command line, like: aptitude install xawtv it works fine.

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I don't know if I'm up to it, but I'd love to give it a go. Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-( If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the above aptitudes (in reverse