seems, this is still an issue with cron-apt: $ apt-cache policy aptitude aptitude: Installed: 0.6.6-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.6.6-1ubuntu1
/etc/cron-apt/config: MAILON="error" APTCOMMAND=/usr/bin/aptitude OPTIONS="-o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=2000" $ cat action.d/0-update update -o quiet=2 $ cat action.d/3-download autoclean -y dist-upgrade -d -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true $ cat action.d/5-install autoclean -y dist-upgrade --safe-resolver -y -o APT:Get:Show-Upgraded=true resulting in error mails like this one: CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Tue May 22 04:00:01 CEST 2012 CRON-APT SLEEP: 3161, Tue May 22 04:52:42 CEST 2012 CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/aptitude -o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=2000 dist-upgrade -d -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... The following packages will be upgraded: icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm linux-headers-3.2.0-24 [...] update-manager-core update-manager-kde 20 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 53.3 MB/98.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 2030 kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Get: 1 http://pi.wiss-stud/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic amd64 3.2.0-24.38 [38.3 MB] [...] Fetched 53.3 MB in 23s (2243 kB/s) E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... I'm not quite sure, if this bug really is the relevant one, but i was redirected to this bug in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/999810 because the other bug is only related to apt-get. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/975793 Title: 'aptitude safe-upgrade -d -y' enters infinite loop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptitude/+bug/975793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
