For over a week now I've been unable to upgrade wheezy. I do aptitude
update as root, which is fine, then also as root do aptitude safe-
upgrade. When I do that, it says "resolving dependencies" and the open
and closed statistics start going up. Right now open is at about 34000
and closed is at 29000. Defer is at 329 and conflict is at 62. It just
sits there with open and closed ticking steadily up, and never seems
to finish.
This doesn't feel right to me. I am not sure what else to post in the
way of info as aptitude doesn't even get to the stage of producing
interesting output before going into this endless-looking process if
ostensibly resolving dependencies. Could my system's notion of package
relationships have got messed up somehow, and if so how can I clean it
up? Any help appreciated.
Machine is self-built intel core i7 920 with 8Gb of Ram and an nVidia
GeForce 9800 GTX+ based graphics card. It's about 2 years old. I
originally installed squeeze which had recently gone into Testing at
the time, and upgraded using aptitude full-upgrade to wheezy shortly
after squeeze became stable. Since upgrading, for a few weeks,
everything was fine until about a week ago when I noticed I couldn't
update as described above. I left it for a week thinking it was a
package dependency prob that would fix itself eventually, but it
doesn't seem to be doing so.
Any help appreciated.
Mark
