[Aptitude-devel] Bug#587404: aptitude: keeps running forever on nonassisted script

[Daniel Hartwig]

Daniel Franganillo <dfranganillo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> at work we have quite a few debian stable servers updated daily with
> this script via cron jobs:

[snip]

> The line:
> yes Y | aptitude -d safe-upgrade >& /dev/null
>
> sometimes keeps running forever, so we have to kill the process, and
> other times ends as expected.
> The packages are being downloaded right so we dont know whats exactly doing.
> Thanks.

Hello

This looks like a lot like #629266, -d has infinite loop after
downloads.  There is a patch[1] available which should fix your case
also.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629266;msg=17

Regards