the exception thrown by aptitude is Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2319: generic_problem_resolver<PackageUniverse>::generic_problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned int, int, const PackageUniverse&) [with PackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: In context <>;[libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.18.1-2 -> {fam 2.7.0-12 fam 2.7.0-13}, libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.18.1-2 -> {gnome-mount 0.5-3 gnome-mount 0.6-1+b2}, prelink 0.0.20061201-1 -> {libelfg0 0.8.6-3 libelfg0 0.8.6-4}];-300 on dependency bd=libstdc ++6-4.0-dev 4.0.3-7 -> {libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 libstdc++6 4.2-20070712-1 libstdc++6 4.2.1-1}: Assertion "bd.broken_under(empty_solution)" failed.
and the version of aptitude I'm using is aptitude 0.4.5.4 compiled at Jul 3 2007 15:14:18 Compiler: g++ 4.1.3 20070629 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-13) NCurses version: 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.17