Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.8-1 Severity: important Invoking ‘aptitude update’ downloads a number of different files, but then cycles over and over downloading the same ‘Packages’ file:
===== $ sudo aptitude update [sudo] password for bignose: Hit http://proxy lenny/updates Release.gpg Ign http://proxy lenny/updates/main Translation-en_AU Hit http://proxy lenny Release.gpg Ign http://proxy lenny/main Translation-en_AU Hit http://proxy lenny/updates Release Hit http://proxy lenny Release Ign http://proxy lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Get:1 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Hit http://volatile.debian.net etch/volatile Release.gpg Ign http://volatile.debian.net etch/volatile/main Translation-en_AU Hit http://volatile.debian.net lenny/volatile Release.gpg Ign http://volatile.debian.net lenny/volatile/main Translation-en_AU Hit http://volatile.debian.net etch/volatile Release Hit http://volatile.debian.net lenny/volatile Release Ign http://volatile.debian.net etch/volatile/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://volatile.debian.net lenny/volatile/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://volatile.debian.net etch/volatile/main Packages Hit http://volatile.debian.net lenny/volatile/main Packages Get:2 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:3 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:4 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:5 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:6 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:7 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:8 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:9 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:10 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:11 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:12 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:13 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:14 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:15 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:16 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:17 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:18 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] Get:19 http://proxy lenny/main Packages [5359kB] 3% [19 Packages 187504/5359kB 3%] ===== The process continues the above pattern indefinitely if left running for over 24 hours; I have to kill the process. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.8 compiled at Jul 4 2008 16:43:39 Compiler: g++ 4.3.1 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 5.6.20080830 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f52000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0xb7e8f000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e51000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e4a000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d86000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7cc5000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b6f000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b5a000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b42000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a53000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7a2d000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a20000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb78e2000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0xb78de000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb78da000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f53000) Terminal: screen $DISPLAY not set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.14+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-3 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080830-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-3 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) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) pn tasksel <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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