[Aptitude-devel] Bug#701946: aptitude: Internal error: no filename for <package>:amd64 after a failed install

[Daniel Dickinson]

On 03/03/13 06:16 AM, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 3 March 2013 17:56, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 2013-03-03 09:45 +0100, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>>> Right.  So the situation, as I understand it, is this:
>>>
>>> Starting with emacs23 _not installed_, you install ccrypt.  Then you
>>> attempt to install emacs23 and it fails due to some error you have not
>>> specified (but would be very helpful to know).  At this point, you
>>> attempt to _reinstall_ emacs23, which fails with the internal error as
>>> stated above.
>>>
>>> Using reinstall — rather than install — on the second attempt suggests
>>> that the package emacs23 is in a state similar to gcc-4.7-base in
>>> #670920.  That is, half-installed, half-configured, or similar.
>>
>> This is indeed the case, see #701944.
>>
> 
> Thanks, Sven.
> 
> Daniel, I have enough information for now to know what is going on.
> Thanks for the report.

Oh, good.  Please do tell.  Is it a VM/9p filesystem thing, or something
else?  AFAIK the only special thing about my setup at this point is the
VM/9p (well and a custom .bashrc in the primary user, but I've installed
both from normal XFCE session and from recovery mode root and had the
issue.  I've had the problem with three VMs).

Regards,

Daniel

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<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping,
it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it
is.