[Aptitude-devel] Bug#769102: Can't configure packages from undocumented states 'T' and 'W'

Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère jmv_deb at nirgal.com
Tue Nov 11 11:19:06 UTC 2014


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1

After last night unattented-upgrades, libaudio2 caused a failure (see
attached unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log)

I manually downgraded them from http://snapshot.debian.org/package/nas/
using:
# dpkg -i libaudio2_1.9.4-1_amd64.deb libaudio2_1.9.4-1_i386.deb

These packages are on hold in aptitude. I completed the installation
using aptitude update & dist-upgrade. I also tried "apt-get -f install".

But now, 2 packages are refusing to complete their configuration:

    root at deimos:~# aptitude full-upgrade
    The following partially installed packages will be configured:
      dbus systemd-shim
    No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

    root at deimos:~# aptitude full-upgrade
    The following partially installed packages will be configured:
      dbus systemd-shim
    No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

Additionally, when using the interface, these packages show state 'T'
and 'W' that are undocumented when pressing '?'. Oo

See attached screen shots.

I worked around that by running "dpkg -a --configure" (thanks babilen at oftc)

I think aptitude should be able to configure these packages, or at very
least should not say it will configure them when it does not.


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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov  8 2014 13:34:39
Compiler: g++ 4.9.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff015fc000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.12 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f87524d8000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
(0x00007f87522a2000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
(0x00007f8752077000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007f8751e71000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x00007f8751b5b000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007f8751892000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f875167a000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f8751269000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x00007f875104b000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(0x00007f8750d40000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8750a3f000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
(0x00007f8750828000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f875047f000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1
(0x00007f875027c000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8750077000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f874fe5c000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0
(0x00007f874fc4c000)
        liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5
(0x00007f874fa28000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f874f820000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1
(0x00007f874f61a000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8752ebc000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.3
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-12
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-19
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-19
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1.1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.29

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