Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.5-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I had upgraded all packages a couple of weeks ago to testing current level. Today I opened aptitude, performed update, and it said there were 123 packages to be updated. I marked the Upgradeable line with +. It said it was Resolving Dependencies, and then became unresponsive. I went on to do something else. After 10 minutes or so I found I could not use readline completion in bash because I had run out of disk space on the root device. Going back to the aptitude window, I saw many out of disk space messages. I hit OK on the messages window, and then canceled my pending actions and quit aptitude. Once back on the command line, I confirmed I was out of space with df -h. root@ctillman:/home/chris# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 19G 17G 865M 96% / Conveniently, I had just done df -h before starting the upgrade, so I scrolled back up and verified I had 12G free beforehand. root@ctillman:/home/chris# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 19G 7.0G 11G 41% / I then used du to drill down to where the space was being used. Here are the final few lines. root@ctillman:/home/chris# du --max-depth=1 -h /tmp/aptitude-root.7985\:PR9HPH/ 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/ root@ctillman:/home/chris# du --max-depth=1 -h /tmp/aptitude- root.7985\:PR9HPH/* 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr 16K /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/etc 24K /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/var 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton root@ctillman:/home/chris# du --max-depth=1 -h /tmp/aptitude- root.7985\:PR9HPH/usr du: cannot access ‘/tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/usr’: No such file or directory root@ctillman:/home/chris# du --max-depth=1 -h /tmp/aptitude-root.7985\:PR9HPH /aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr root@ctillman:/home/chris# du --max-depth=1 -h /tmp/aptitude-root.7985\:PR9HPH /aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin root@ctillman:/home/chris# du --max-depth=1 -h /tmp/aptitude-root.7985\:PR9HPH /aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace- dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11/X11 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11 root@ctillman:/home/chris# du --max-depth=1 -h /tmp/aptitude-root.7985\:PR9HPH /aptitude-trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/ 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace- dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11 9.7G /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude-trace- dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/ As you can see, the X11 directory has been recursively created. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Quit aptitude, that freed up about 1G. Then root@ctillman:/home/chris# rm -rf /tmp/aptitude-root.7985:PR9HPH/aptitude- trace-dumpubvton/usr/bin/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/ * What was the outcome of this action? root@ctillman:/home/chris# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 19G 6.9G 11G 40% / -- Package-specific info: $TERM not set. $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.5 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20151207 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20151024 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7710000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0xb71b8000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7182000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb715d000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7156000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7053000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6f71000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0xb6f58000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0xb6f3c000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0xb6f37000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6d2d000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d10000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6ba0000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6b52000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6b35000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb697d000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6979000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6974000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xb695b000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb693e000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb692b000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xb6902000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0xb68ef000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb68e5000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb68df000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80030000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.5-3 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.1 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-7 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20151024-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.10.2-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-7 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-2 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.5-3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.34 -- no debconf information