[Aptitude-devel] Bug#669093: E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for ..., aborting

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.6-1+b1
Severity: important

When I want to upgrade with aptitude 0.6.6-1+b1 from its ncurses
interface, I get the following error:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in           ▒│
│   SmartConfigure for libkeyutils1:amd64, aborting                           ▒│
│                                    [ Ok ]                                    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

This is always reproducible, even after quitting aptitude.
There's a workaround: type "aptitude install" from the
command line, and everything is fine.

Note: this looks similar to

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669044
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669060

reported against apt 0.9.0, but I have apt 0.8.15.10 only
(I haven't upgraded apt itself yet).

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-debian
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.6 compiled at Apr 16 2012 22:17:55
Compiler: g++ 4.6.3
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff419ff000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fe617f30000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fe617d01000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fe617ad8000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fe6178d3000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fe6175cb000)
	libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0x00007fe617377000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fe616f7a000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fe616d64000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fe616abc000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007fe6168a3000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fe616687000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fe61637f000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fe6160fd000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fe615ee7000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe615b5f000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fe61595c000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fe615758000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fe615547000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fe615342000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fe615139000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe618284000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.0
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-27
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.1
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.6+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.0-3
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-6
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.11-2
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.0-3
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-6
ii  libxapian22               1.2.8-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.6.dfsg-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.6-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.6

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.09

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