[Aptitude-devel] Bug#744255: aptitude has issues installing or purging a specific package - gfxboot-themes Package: aptitude

Fri Apr 11 23:52:14 UTC 2014

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.10-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to install gfxboot-themes when during the install it
kinda hung while installing.

$ sudo aptitude install gfxboot-themes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gfxboot-themes
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 92.5 MB will be used.
Get: 1 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ jessie/main gfxboot-themes
all 4.5.2-1.1-2 [11.0 MB]
Fetched 11.0 MB in 8min 32s (21.4 kB/s)
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: ensure_statoverrides: new, (re)loading
Selecting previously unselected package gfxboot-themes.
(Reading database ... 453773 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gfxboot-themes_4.5.2-1.1-2_all.deb ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed
Unpacking gfxboot-themes (4.5.2-1.1-2) ...
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
D000001: generating infodb hashfile
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
Setting up gfxboot-themes (4.5.2-1.1-2) ...
D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles

It comes at that last line and just hanged there. I waited for quite
some time but nothing happened, it kinda stuck there.

I then tried to purge it and that too became stuck :-

$ sudo aptitude purge gfxboot-themes -y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gfxboot-themes{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 92.5 MB will be freed.

As can be seen it is stuck there. I did check that the installation happened.

$ apt-show-versions -a gfxboot-themes
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 install ok installed
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 jessie   debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
gfxboot-themes:all 4.5.2-1.1-2 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net
No experimental version
gfxboot-themes:all/jessie 4.5.2-1.1-2 uptodate

Any ideas would be good. Looking forward to know what might have gone wrong.

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.10 compiled at Feb 20 2014 17:26:22
Compiler: g++ 4.8.2
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.11
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140118
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff5adfe000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0x00007fdc2c410000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fdc2c1db000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fdc2bfb0000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007fdc2bdab000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x00007fdc2baa4000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007fdc2b847000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fdc2b449000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fdc2b231000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007fdc2af74000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0
(0x00007fdc2ad5a000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fdc2ab3d000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fdc2a838000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fdc2a535000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fdc2a31f000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fdc29f75000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fdc29d72000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fdc29b6e000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fdc2995d000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fdc2973a000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fdc29534000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fdc2932c000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fdc2cdae000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.10-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.16.1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.54.0  1.54.0-5
ii  libc6                     2.18-4
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-1
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.12
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.8.2-16
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140118-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.11-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.4.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.8.2-16
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140118-1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.17-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.46
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.10-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.12
ii  tasksel  3.20

-- no debconf information

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