Hi, Unfortunately I don't remember any details anymore, sorry about that. I am running stable these days, then you get a massive number of updates after a release.
Cheers, Grzegorz On 9 Sep 2015 14:06, "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" < [email protected]> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > Control: close -1 > > Hello Grzegorz, > > 2011-06-30 17:48 Grzegorz Andruszkiewicz: > >> Package: aptitude >> Version: 0.6.3-4 >> Severity: important >> >> I was running the aptitude safe-upgrade command to update the system >> after a >> while (there were about 1400 packages being updated). However after >> unpacking a >> couple of packages aptitude crashed with a message that there are too many >> errors. Presumably too many dependencies were broken. >> >> I think that aptitude should check if the operation will not cause too >> many >> dependencies being broken before it starts. After it crashed it failed to >> even >> start again (see bug 632125). I was forced to run apt-get -f dist-upgrade >> to >> get the system to some stable state, but I lost all the auto marks on >> packages. >> > > Sorry that this bug was not handled in a more timely manner, but this > bug report is not very actionable as it is. > > We would need to know at least some approximate message of what it > complained about, "too many errors" is not enough, there is nothing > matching "-i 'many.*broken'" in the source. Also, using unstable and > doing big upgrades from time to time for more than a decade, I never > encountered such a message, so I have no clue about what might be the > problem. > > Additionally, seeing the other bug report, it is not clear that "it > failed to even start again": in fact it did, and it was doing dependency > resolution (maybe the system was left in a state very difficult to > resolve and thus it was taking unreasonable long time; or needed too > much memory or other causes; aptitude bugs/problems or not). But that > is different than failing/refusing to even start because e.g. the file > recording package states was corrupt, for example. > > So I am going to close this bug report now, because I think that nothing > useful can be extracted from it. > > > Cheers. > -- > Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> > >
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