Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.0-5 Severity: important After running an update this evening, I found myself unable to use aptitude as it kept getting stuck saying it was "Resolving dependencies".
Basic operations on the preview screen would hang aptitude (trying to upgrade something that was on hold, trying to put something on hold that was broken, etc.). It was completely unusable (I had to kill it from another window three times in a row). I have a large number of KDE packages on hold right now due to that transition, so I thought maybe it was some combinatoric calculation that was talking forever. However, aptitude doesn't peg the CPU or anything when it is stuck like this. To be more specific, I start aptitude. I pressed "g". It said: Resolving dependencies... [Previous][Next][Appl][Close] This was already weird looking. Usually it suggests putting some number of packages on hold (since 72 packages are broken from the KDE transition). I selected "Close". I attempted to put a broken KDE package (akode) on hold by typing "=". This froze aptitude (required being killed elsewhere). During this, the bottom of the screen said: [1(0)/...] Resolving dependencies e: Examine (the rest of the things on this line were greyed out) I started it up again, pressed "g", saw the same "Resolving dependcies..." thing again, and selected "Close" again. This type, I tried to switching one of the packages scheduled for deletion to a purge instead (kdelibs4c2) by pressing "_". This also hung aptitude. I killed it again. I started it up again, pressed "g", saw the same "Resolving dependcies..." thing again, and selected "Close" again. This type, I tried to switching one of the packages on hold (kdeartwork) to be upgrade by typing "+". This also hung aptitude. I killed it again. -Ivan -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.43 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.0-5 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
