Control: retitle -1 aptitude: generic/problemresolver/solution.h:297: void generic_solution<PackageUniverse>::solution_rep::decref() const [...]: Assertion "refcount>0" failed Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Hi Michael, 2011-05-30 15:46 Michael Rasmussen:
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.4-1 Severity: important # aptitude upgrade Resolving dependencies... Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade: ../../src/generic/problemresolver/solution.h:297: void generic_solution<PackageUniverse>::solution_rep::decref() const [with PackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: Assertion "refcount>0" failed. Unable to safely resolve dependencies, try running with --full-resolver. # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ntfsprogs The following packages will be upgraded: ntfs-3g 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/303 kB of archives. After this operation, 139 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Triaging bugs for years, I think that I haven't seen this kind of assertion failure before. The system was using unstable and experimental, and more than 4 years after the fact, trying to reproduce this bug would be quite difficult. I will leave it open and with a different title in the case that we see more issues in the future, so we can find previous occurrences more easily. My best guess is that there was some interaction with other components at the time, e.g. apt and complex changes like multi-arch being added around that time, that made this problem surface in aptitude, but I have no clue about how to try to address it. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
