Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I wonder what would happen if you ran "aptitude -s install" with no more arguments. My guess is this might trigger the crash. You could also try
aptitude -s -o 'Aptitude::Auto-Install=false' install ctsim ctsim-pentium4 , which should get directly to the broken state (if it doesn't, that's interesting in itself). If you *can* trigger the bug with either of these commands, please add the option "-o 'Aptitude::CmdLine::Resolver-Debug=true'" to the command-line and send me the output (you might have to send it directly instead of via the BTS, although if the BTS didn't choke on the resolver dump it might be OK with the debugging output too). Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]