Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
I guess we're done, Daniel. I don't know why, but it ain't broke anymore, so we can't fix it :-) I'll try something else if you want. I've learned quite a bit during this exercise and enjoyed it all. Thanks. Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:16:06AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ /usr/bin/aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.11 compiled at Mar 16 2008 17:32:32 Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2) NCurses version: 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:16:06AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ /usr/bin/aptitude --version > aptitude 0.4.11 compiled at Mar 16 2008 17:32:32 > Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2) > > NCurses version: 5.6 > libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 > Ept sup

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: Hmmm. That's the most recent update to the source tree. Which would mean aptitude doesn't freeze for you. Yay! We solved your problem and we didn't even change any code! :-D Did you get any freezes during your test, or did everything work for you? Al

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:25:59AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Daniel: > > I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't > restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and > then got this: > > > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel: I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and then got this: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good The first bad revision is: changeset: 1652:c6e9af2ee01d tag: tip

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:44:44AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows >> was heard to say: >>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich >>> was heard to say: I did the above and began r

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the followi

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. (more of that)

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich > was heard to say: > > I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 > > passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the com

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 > passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: > > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. (more of that) Hm, it looks li

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: Install the packages "automake" and "autoconf" and you should be set. Thanks for your help, Daniel Daniel: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: r...@penin

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on 0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on *your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious what

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.1

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on 0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on *your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious what your search turns up, b

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I > tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: > > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11 > r...@peninsula

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-19 17:23 +0100, microwaverich wrote: > Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I > tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: > > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11 > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me: dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? (Reading database ... 112547 files and directories c

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me: > > dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? > (Reading database ... 112547 files and directories currently installed

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: I don't know if I'm "up to" it, but I'd love to give it a go. Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-( If I understand you correctly, I should try installin

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 January 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': > The problem is, the earliest version of aptitude which is known to be >free of the bug is so old that it no longer builds with the current >toolchain in Debian. And if you run "

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:56:27AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote > about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': > >On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich > was hea

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 17 January 2009, microwaverich wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': >3. run: >aptitude update >aptitude install apt >aptitude install dpkg >aptitude install aptitude >aptitude dist-upgrade I could be completely wrong here (and I would love

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': >On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: >> If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the above >> aptitudes (in reverse order?)

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > I don't know if I'm "up to" it, but I'd love to give it a go. Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-( > If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the above > aptitu

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:51:13PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving properly. When I enter a single command at the command line, like: aptitude install xawtv it works fine. If I just enter

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:51:13PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving > properly. > > > When I enter a single command at the command line, like: > > aptitude install xawtv > > it works fine. > > If I just enter 'aptitud