[Aptitude-devel] Bug#670822: aptitude dist-upgrade -d goes into infinite loop

[Marc Haber]

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

Hi,

$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade -d
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kbd libnewt0.52 whiptail
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  libfribidi0
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/565 kB of archives. After unpacking 674 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

After entering "y", aptitude goes into an infinete loop and never
returns. I have once let it run for three hours, but it didn't get
back to me.

An strace of a shorter run is available in private e-mail on request.

Greetings
Marc

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not 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 =>  (0x00007fffab3ff000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f0912ba5000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f0912976000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f091274d000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f0912548000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f0912248000)
	libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0x00007f0911ff5000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f0911bf8000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f09119e2000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f091173a000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007f0911521000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f0911305000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f0910ffd000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f0910d7b000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f0910b65000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f09107dd000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f09105da000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f09103d6000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f09101c5000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f090ffc0000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f090fdb7000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f0912ee0000)

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

Kernel: Linux 3.3.4-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/6 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, 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            0.9.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-30
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.2
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.6.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.0-4
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                4.7.0-4
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                <none>
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>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed [not included]

-- no debconf information