Your message dated Tue, 1 Sep 2015 01:26:59 +0100 with message-id <capq4b8m4zxs_7q+wguxepvimpjosu_hkep-bhe0zogutuj3...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line aptitude: inifinite cycle resolving conflicts has caused the Debian Bug report #567545, regarding aptitude: inifinite cycle resolving conflicts to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: normal # aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-ati Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: xserver-xorg-core The following NEW packages will be installed: xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-mach64{a} xserver-xorg-video-r128{a} 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/543kB of archives. After unpacking 971kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-2 which is a virtual package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Install the following packages: xserver-xorg-video-mach64 [6.8.2-2 (testing, unstable)] xserver-xorg-video-r128 [6.8.1-2 (testing, unstable)] Score is -10 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-2 which is a virtual package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Score is 50 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-2 which is a virtual package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: And it goes on offering the empty solution. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 02:43:34 Compiler: g++ 4.3.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77dc000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0xb770e000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb76d0000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb76c9000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7605000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7544000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb73ee000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb73d9000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb73c0000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb72d1000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb72ab000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb729e000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7157000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb7153000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb714e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77dd000) Terminal: linux $DISPLAY not set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hello, Sorry that the bug was not handled in a more timely manner, but I don't think that by now it is worth chasing up this problem (even if we managed to reproduce it at all), after so many years and changes in the aptitude resolver, so I am closing the bug report now. If it keeps happening and you can provide more information, please do and reopen the bug. In any case, if it was not a one-off and instead it was a common problem affecting more users/systems, I am sure that we will have duplicates in the long list of open bug reports. I think that the original problem was that the new drivers provided a version which was incompatible with the previous -core, and thus refused to install the new; or it was already in a broken state beforehand. Given the long list of repositories enabled in that system (stable, testing, unstable, experimental, oldstable) it is quite natural that some of the package dependencies conflicted and were impossible to resolve without some forceful intervention (esp. from experimental). If the complaint is that it kept offering the empty solution forever, I have not seen this problem, at least not in the last few years, using aptitude almost daily with unstable (e.g. changing all the time and with problematic versions of managers and hairy transitions with conflicts of versions). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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