Bug#432411: aptitude: Dist-upgrade impossible: search abor..

External Since: Nov 22, 2006 Posts: 159

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.5.4-1
Severity: important

Today trying to dist-upgrade I get this:
$ LANG=C sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
locales
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
gimp-data libsvn-perl schroot-common
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
libpth20
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpth20
The following packages will be upgraded:
comerr-dev debhelper e2fslibs e2fsprogs gdm gtk-gnutella libblkid1 libcomerr2 libdevmapper1.02.1 libevent1 libgpgme11
libss2 libuuid1 module-init-tools nfs-common seahorse vim vim-common vim-full vim-gui-common vim-runtime
22 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.7MB/29.7MB of archives. After unpacking 8485kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales: Depends: glibc-2.6-1 which is a virtual package.
Resolving dependencies...
*** ERROR: search aborted by fatal exception. You may continue
searching, but some solutions will be unreachable.

Unexpectedly non-broken dependency gimp 2.2.15-2 -> {gimp-data 2.2.15-2}!
(gimp-data 2.2.15-2 is installed)
Abort.

Effectively the locales package is broken on i386. Libc6 2.6 is not yet
available but the arch:all locales package is and the previous version
disappeared.

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
Installed: 2.5-11
Candidate: 2.5-11
Version table:
2.6-0exp3 0
1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org experimental/main Packages
*** 2.5-11 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.5-9+b1 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages
$ LANG=C apt-cache policy locales
locales:
Installed: 2.5-11
Candidate: 2.6-1
Version table:
2.6-1 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages
2.6-0exp3 0
1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org experimental/main Packages
*** 2.5-11 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.5-9 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages

This is however no reason to interrupt the dist-upgrade. You should simply
diagnose this and not upgrade the locales package.

Note that aptitude safe-upgrade / upgrade is not affected.

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF- Cool

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.5 0.7.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070707-1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070707-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output

-- no debconf information

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External Since: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 155

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:44:52PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog.TakeThisOut@debian.org> was heard to say:
> *** ERROR: search aborted by fatal exception. You may continue
> searching, but some solutions will be unreachable.
>
> Unexpectedly non-broken dependency gimp 2.2.15-2 -> {gimp-data 2.2.15-2}!
> (gimp-data 2.2.15-2 is installed)

This is an internal error that indicates that aptitude did something
inconsistent while reasoning about your packages. Somehow the
gimp->gimp-data dep ended up on a list of dependencies that need to be
fixed, despite the fact that the appropriate gimp-data is installed.

Could you post the output that you get when you add
"-o aptitude::cmdline::resolver-debug=true" to the command line? Also,
if you could tar up and send the following files it would help me
reproduce this:

* /var/lib/aptitude
* /var/lib/apt
* /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
* /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
* /etc/apt
* /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thanks,
Daniel

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