Hi Manuel, nice to hear from you!
No, I didn't have this issue since years. Cheers Henner Am 12.01.2016 um 20:59 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > Hi Ciril and Jan-Hendrik, > > 2010-11-07 18:50 Cyril Brulebois: >> Package: aptitude >> Version: 0.6.3-3.2 >> Severity: important >> >> Hi, >> >> context: I've got the whole X Server 1.9 stack installed from >> experimental, >> except a few video drivers. After having uploaded -ati/-radeon to >> experimental, I tried to install them through the GUI, with '+' on them, >> but that doesn't work because the unstable version is preferred, so they >> appear as 'broken' (as expected). Then, in turn, I pick the experimental >> version, and everything goes green again. >> >> Unfortunately, hitting 'g' to perform the installation leads to this >> assertion: >> | Exception : ../../src/ui.cc:1389: void auto_fix_broken(): Assertion >> "resman->resolver_exists()" failed. >> >> That's reproducible. >> >> (Full package name: xserver-xorg-video-ati and >> xserver-xorg-video-radeon.) >> >> >> Trying the CLI, same kind of issues. Here's a transcript: >> [...] >> | The following actions will resolve these dependencies: >> | >> | Install the following packages: >> | 1) xserver-xorg-video-ati [1:6.13.2-1 (experimental)] >> | 2) xserver-xorg-video-radeon [1:6.13.2-1 (experimental)] >> | >> | >> | >> | Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y >> | The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> | xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-6 which is a virtual >> package. >> | *** ERROR: search aborted by fatal exception. You may continue >> | searching, but some solutions will be unreachable. >> | >> | I want to resolve dependencies, but no dependency resolver was >> created.The following NEW packages will be installed: >> | xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon >> | 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. >> | Need to get 0 B/910 kB of archives. After unpacking 1847 kB will be >> used. >> | aptitude failed to find a solution to these dependencies. You can >> solve them yourself by hand or type 'n' to quit. >> | The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> | xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-6 which is a virtual >> package. >> | Resolve these dependencies by hand? [N/+/-/_/:/?] ^C >> >> That's reproducible as well. >> >> As you can see below, I have Debian's testing, unstable, and >> experimental repositories enabled, and only that. > > > 2010-12-03 17:39 Jan-Hendrik (HennR) Peters: >> Same problem here. >> >> I'm trying to replace xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd with >> xserver-xorg-video-radeon: >> >> # aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-radeon >> >> [...] >> >> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-6 which is a virtual >> package. >> *** ERROR: search aborted by fatal exception. You may continue >> searching, but some solutions will be unreachable. >> >> I want to resolve dependencies, but no dependency resolver was >> created.The following NEW packages will be installed: >> xserver-xorg-video-radeon >> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >> Need to get 0 B/665 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,520 kB will be >> used. >> aptitude failed to find a solution to these dependencies. You can solve >> them yourself by hand or type 'n' to quit. >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-6 which is a virtual >> package. >> Resolve these dependencies by hand? [N/+/-/_/:/?] >> Abort. >> >> >> So far so good. >> >> But if I start aptitude with ncurses and do the following: >> >> mark xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd to get removed >> mark xserver-xorg-video-radeon to get installed >> switch to dependency resolve mode (pressing e) >> choose alternative number 2 (install xserver-xorg-video-radeon) >> submitting my choice by pressing "!" aptitude crashes with this error: >> >> Uncaught exception: ../../src/ui.cc:1389: void auto_fix_broken(): >> Assertion "resman->resolver_exists()" failed. >> >> sometimes I have to press "g" to make it crash tough. >> >> Well, I just figured out that this happens as well if I don't mark >> xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd to get removed before. > > > Have you both experienced this issue in that last few years, after this > report that you have sent? > > I have not seen any other bug reports related with this problem in the > hundreds that I have triaged in the last few years, and the problems in > this report seem to have happened at a very specific point in time, > within one month, and never reported since. > > This can have been caused by a bad compilation, or bad interaction/ABI > incompatibility of some of the libraries. > > If it wasn't experienced after that point in time, I don't think that it > makes a lot of sense to chase it after 5 years. > > > Cheers.
