[Aptitude-devel] Bug#669198: aptitude: Aptitude dies with internal error

[Frank McCormick]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.6-1+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I did an " aptitude update..and aptitude fill-upgrade"

This is what I got:

Need to get 0 B/59.9 MB of archives. After unpacking 354 kB will be freed. Do
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E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in
SmartConfigure for grep:i386, aborting
sid:/home/frank#






-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.6 compiled at Apr 17 2012 05:16:17
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-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb776b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb761c000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb75ea000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb75c9000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb75c4000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb74c1000)
	libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0xb7471000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb7272000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb725a000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb71b2000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb719b000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7182000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7096000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb706f000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7052000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6ef5000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6ef1000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6eed000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6edc000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6ed6000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6ecd000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb776c000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.6

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
pn  tasksel  <none>

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