Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-1 Severity: grave aptitude goes dead shortly after etch installed; entire etch installation appears useless.
I was unable to use aptitude to determine version number; I installed version number obtained by reading the filename aptitude_0.4.4-1_i386.deb on pool/main/a on the netinstall disk. I presume this is correct and that aptitude has not upgraded itself in the intervening day. I certainly didn't *notice* any aptitude upgrade. Here's the story: Fresh etch install, from Jan 2 daily netinstall build, installed on Jan 3, as described in an installation report that doesn't seem to have arrived yet. Installed only the 'standard system' from dselect during the installation. Used jfs as the filesystem for the root partition (which contained everything -- there were other partitions around, but didn't use them for this install). The installation itself appeared to go flawlessly. After installation, used aptitude to install emacs. Then used aptitude to install xserver-xorg. tried startx, it failed for lack of fonts. Installed defoma and xfs. tried startx, it failed, complaining there were no window managers or various other things that might tell in what to run acter its screen cam e up. Mouse worked fine, was able to click the little box that let X shut down agian. Installed icewm, but asked for esound-alsa instead of esound. tried startx, got the black screen of death -- completely unresponsive to mouse or keyboard. No, this bug report isn't about the black screen of death, which still needs to be investigated. Rebooted, using the reset button on the computer. Started aptitude. Aptitude complains upon startup: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates aptitude refuses to do anything further. Seems dead to me. From install to dead all in one day. Funny. It seemed perfectly OK last time I quit from it. Would it help to submit the contents of /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates or /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.old? they're rather large binary files (1723072 bytes each). -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
