Bug#486843: dpkg: Irrecoverable error: Assertion `dependtry = 4' failed.

2008-08-14 Thread Nick Leverton
My thanks to all those who suggested resolutions. dpkg --configuring the packages one by one didn't work, and it was necessary to uninstall and then reinstall all 38 packages which were still in state iU, iW or iF. Some of the packages had quite wide-ranging dependencies so I had to use dpkg -r

Bug#486843: dpkg: Irrecoverable error: Assertion `dependtry = 4' failed.

2008-08-14 Thread Guillem Jover
merge 489068 486843 thanks Hi, On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 13:46:11 +0100, Nick Leverton wrote: My thanks to all those who suggested resolutions. dpkg --configuring the packages one by one didn't work, and it was necessary to uninstall and then reinstall all 38 packages which were still in state

Bug#486843: dpkg: Irrecoverable error: Assertion `dependtry = 4' failed.

2008-08-13 Thread Nick Leverton
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.20 Followup-For: Bug #486843 severity 486843 important thanks dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry = 4' failed. Regrettably one of my machines is now giving this error and I cannot find a way to recover from it. The machine was doing

Bug#486843: dpkg: Irrecoverable error: Assertion `dependtry = 4' failed.

2008-08-13 Thread Kasper Loopstra
I'm not sure this is the right way to reply to the Debian bug tracking system... A friend of mine explained to me that if you create a shell script that checks for every package in dpkg -l (I think) that has a capital letter in the status field, and call dpkg --configure for each of those, it