[Aptitude-devel] Bug#671201: apt: Apt enters inifinite loop

[David Kalnischkies]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Erich Schubert <erich at debian.org> wrote:
> Running "sudo aptitude -d safe-upgrade" since Version 0.9.2 frequently
> ends up in an endless loop (it doesn't seem to happen without "-d"?):
> ---
>> sudo aptitude -d safe-upgrade
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
>
> Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
>
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
>
> Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
[…]
> Of course it might be localepurge to blame. I did not debug this further.
> This behaviour clearly is since upgrading to apt 0.9.2, and I've seen it
> happen on multiple systems.

>From which version did you upgraded to 0.9.2?
And can you reproduce this with an apt-get command?
Otherwise i would like to here what aptitude maintainers think.

Suspicious is that no action is performed by aptitude and it still seems
to instruct libapt to do something with the package manager.
Especially with -d (assuming it's --download-only) this shouldn't happen…


Best regards

David Kalnischkies