Bug#747442: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#747442: aptitude: progs run by aptitude (apt-listbugs, how-can-I-help block apt when they crash
On 9 May 2014 02:08, Stephen McGregor x...@stephen-mcgregor.com wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, the specific situation: - [ already filed as #747406 against ruby] -a ruby corruption is crashing both apt-listbugs AND how-can-I-help - thus aptitude returns a failure and does NOT install the desired packages - the apt system is now completely broken: these packages can not be removed and no others can be installed. - apt-get is also affected and no longer works. the general case --- important - any program run by aptitude (such as apt-listbugs or how-can-I-help) that crashes will break the apt system. - this is a critical bug: any type of failure in sub-programs should have NO effect on aptitude. Not a bug, this is the intended and documented behaviour [1]. These hook programs are permitted to prevent an install action from proceeding by returning failure. In this case, the hook programs themselves fail to run, but it can not be assumed that it is the administrators wishes to proceed anyway. For example if the purpose of having apt-listbugs installed is to prevent buggy packages from being installed, that purpose _would_ be defeated. Do you trust to install packages without that program screening them first? If so, you can inform apt of this decision by removing the bothersome lines from apt.conf. [1] From apt.conf(5): Pre-Install-Pkgs This is a list of shell commands to run before invoking dpkg(1). Like options this must be specified in list notation. The commands are invoked in order using /bin/sh; *should any fail APT will abort*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#747442: aptitude: progs run by aptitude (apt-listbugs, how-can-I-help block apt when they crash
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, the specific situation: - [ already filed as #747406 against ruby] -a ruby corruption is crashing both apt-listbugs AND how-can-I-help - thus aptitude returns a failure and does NOT install the desired packages - the apt system is now completely broken: these packages can not be removed and no others can be installed. - apt-get is also affected and no longer works. the general case --- important - any program run by aptitude (such as apt-listbugs or how-can-I-help) that crashes will break the apt system. - this is a critical bug: any type of failure in sub-programs should have NO effect on aptitude. The code should be changed so that any problem in sub-programs run by aptitude will have NO effect on aptitude (or apt-get). Otherwise the apt system is at risk from any such program The bug I have filed above is related to a collection of recent (the week up to today 2014-05-08) bugs in ruby. See that bug #747406 for more detail. HOWEVER, the problem is the general case: corruptions such as this ruby problem should have NO effect on aptitude. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: rxvt-unicode-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.10 compiled at Feb 20 2014 18:22:07 Compiler: g++ 4.8.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.11 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140118 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 (0xb778f000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb7227000) libncursesw.so.5 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb71ef000) libtinfo.so.5 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb71cc000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb71c6000) libcwidget.so.3 = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb70c2000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb7069000) libxapian.so.22 = /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6e6f000) libz.so.1 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6e55000) libsqlite3.so.0 = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6d96000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 (0xb6d7d000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d61000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c75000) libm.so.6 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c2e000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6c12000) libc.so.6 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6a67000) libutil.so.1 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6a63000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6a5e000) libbz2.so.1.0 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6a4b000) liblzma.so.5 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xb6a24000) libuuid.so.1 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6a1e000) librt.so.1 = /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6a15000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb779) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#747442: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#747442: aptitude: progs run by aptitude (apt-listbugs, how-can-I-help block apt when they crash
Hi Stephen, Stephen McGregor wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, the specific situation: - [ already filed as #747406 against ruby] - a ruby corruption is crashing both apt-listbugs AND how-can-I-help - thus aptitude returns a failure and does NOT install the desired packages - the apt system is now completely broken: these packages can not be removed and no others can be installed. - apt-get is also affected and no longer works. The last sentence rather sounds like an apt library issue than an aptitude issue. Or does it not happen if you only use apt-get? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
