Hello, On 18 September 2015 at 02:09, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > Hi Michal, > > 2014-01-01 13:15 Michal Suchanek: >> >> Package: aptitude >> Version: 0.6.8.2-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Hello, >> >> I wanted to try systemd so >> >> 1) installed systemd >> >> 2) marked non-conflicting version of sysvinit and systemd-sysv for >> install >> >> 3) proceeded with installetion >> >> aptitude crashed endlessly printing information about systemd-sysv >> conflicting with the sysvinit currently installed > > > In principle this is happening with apt (can be a stack overflow due to > recursion, and pkgPackageManager::SmartUnPack calls itself and had > problems with that before, according to the changelog). > > But it is possible that it was happening because of aptitude feeding > wrong values for some reason. However, with this information and no > other reports of people complaining about the same issue, it's difficult > to know what's going on; and right now I cannot set up a similar > environment to try to reproduce it. > > I see that you have a mix of systems, but highest priority stable, so I > guess that most packages are from the stable distribution at the time > (didn't check if all versions match, though). > > Do you know if this also happened with other packages, or with same > packages but with later versions of aptitude?
I haven't seen this recently so I guess this is fixed with the apt change. Thanks Michal
