* Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-08 > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:52 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages > > are > > broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them! > > Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have no idea > > what caused this. Kindly help. > > > > $ sudo aptitude install smartmontools > > ... > > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 117 to remove and 45 not > > upgraded. > > ... > > > > $ sudo aptitude install > > ... > > Uncaught exception: > > ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: > > generic_problem_resolver<PackageUniverse>::generic_problem_resolver(int, > > int, int, int, unsigned int, int, const PackageUniverse&) [with > > PackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: Assertion > > "bd.broken_under(solution::root_node(initial_broken, universe, weights))" > > failed. > > > can you please show us your APT sources? > 'cat /etc/apt/sources.list'
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20061024)]/ etch main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main
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Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
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