[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-12-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2016-12-24 03:08 manuel.montez...@gmail.com: 2016-12-24 02:55 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: This seems to be due to changes in behaviour of apt or some strange interaction, because the relevant sections of aptitude have not changed in a long time. (I didn't experience the same behaviour

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-12-23 Thread manuel . montezelo
2016-12-24 02:55 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: This seems to be due to changes in behaviour of apt or some strange interaction, because the relevant sections of aptitude have not changed in a long time. (I didn't experience the same behaviour because I couldn't upgrade my computer at the

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-12-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + pending 2016-11-04 12:28 ydir...@free.fr: Just hit the same problem after adding a valid sources.list entry without having imported the repo signing key, and I can confirm it'the behaviour is really awkward - and reading suggestions that letting the user lose time until he

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-12-21 Thread Daniel Schröter
Hi, I could reproduce this after I have added deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20161109T033315Z/ unstable main and didn't start aptitude with aptitude -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false Version is root@ivy:/mnt/sdb4/tmp# aptitude --version aptitude 0.8.3 Compiler: g++ 6.2.0

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-11-04 Thread ydirson
Just hit the same problem after adding a valid sources.list entry without having imported the repo signing key, and I can confirm it'the behaviour is really awkward - and reading suggestions that letting the user lose time until he figures out he has to restarti aptitude would be a valid way out

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-10-10 Thread Debian BTS
i can confirm the problem. in my case it turned out that the problem was a line adding videolan.org to the Reply-To: IOhannes m zmoelnig , 834...@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: IOhannes m zmoelnig Resent-To: debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org Resent-CC:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-08-31 Thread Marc Donges
Hi! I have the same problem with a different underlying cause, a Release file with a correct signature but an invalid date. Updating the package list interactively shows no problems but hangs at "Loading cache". When updating the package list noninteractively via "aptitude update" the problem

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-08-24 Thread Antos Andras
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #834790 Dear Maintainer, I experience the same problem on multiple PC-s with recent aptitude version. I did not changed anything in the source.list(.d/*.list) files when it started (just upgraded packages probably). The issue depends on

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-08-22 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi Christian, 2016-08-20 16:45 Christian Klein: I encountered the same problem. Does it also happen to you after errors in the URL / suite name? (Thanks for the extra information). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-08-20 Thread Christian Klein
I encountered the same problem. After installing the cwidget and aptitude debug packages, I got the following stack traces: (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 4 (Thread 0x7f3d3c885700 (LWP 8565)): #0 pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at