[Aptitude-devel] Bug#838560: aptitude: "aptitude -u" hangs indefinitely at "Loading cache" if an APT repo results in a 404 (maybe APT 1.3 related)

2016-10-02 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, I ran into the same symptom - aptitude stuck at "Loading cache" after `aptitude -u` - after I had added the line deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20160924/ sid main non-free contrib into sources.list. What revealed the root cause in my case was running `apt-get update`, which prod

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#838560: aptitude: "aptitude -u" hangs indefinitely at "Loading cache" if an APT repo results in a 404 (maybe APT 1.3 related)

2016-09-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > As every day, I ran "aptitude -u". But for one or two days (not sure if > before or after the APT 1.3 final upload), all Opera APT repos gave a > 404. (They no more do, so I can't reproduce it anymore with these repos, > but will later try to get a working and persi

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#838560: aptitude: "aptitude -u" hangs indefinitely at "Loading cache" if an APT repo results in a 404 (maybe APT 1.3 related)

2016-09-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: normal As every day, I ran "aptitude -u". But for one or two days (not sure if before or after the APT 1.3 final upload), all Opera APT repos gave a 404. (They no more do, so I can't reproduce it anymore with these repos, but will later try to get a wor