[Aptitude-devel] Bug#803773: aptitude: Update fails periodically
Michael Welsh Duggan
mwd at md5i.com
Mon Nov 2 15:21:59 UTC 2015
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.4-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Every so often, aptitude fails to update (with 'u') properly. When
figuring out how to properly report this, I tried using update on the
command line. Here is the result:
$ sudo aptitude update
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie InRelease
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable InRelease
Get: 1 http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/contrib amd64 Packages [1,344 B]
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing InRelease
Get: 2 http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/contrib i386 Packages [1,345 B]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable InRelease
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/non-free i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental InRelease
Hit http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable InRelease
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex
Fetched 2,689 B in 0s (7,946 B/s)
E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or directory)
The problem is solved by running apt-get update. After this, aptitude
update works just fine.
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jessie InRelease
Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
Hit:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease
Ign:7 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease
Hit:9 http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable InRelease
Hit:10 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable Release
Get:11 http://deb-multimedia.org sid InRelease [22.3 kB]
Hit:13 http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main Sources
Hit:14 http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main amd64 Packages
Hit:15 http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main i386 Packages
Reading package lists... Done
$ sudo aptitude update
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie InRelease
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing InRelease
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/non-free amd64 Packages
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable InRelease
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental InRelease
Hit http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/non-free i386 Packages
Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 2 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [5,611 B]
Get: 3 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [5,473 B]
Get: 4 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 5 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [4,093 B]
Get: 6 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [5,611 B]
Get: 7 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 8 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex [4,231 B]
Hit http://deb-multimedia.org sid InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages
Get: 9 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex [5,611 B]
Get: 10 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex [1,747 B]
Get: 11 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 12 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,713 B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable Release.gpg
Get: 13 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Sources/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 14 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [3,265 B]
Get: 15 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [3,403 B]
Get: 16 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 17 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [3,127 B]
Get: 18 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [3,541 B]
Get: 19 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 20 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex [3,127 B]
Get: 21 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex [3,679 B]
Get: 22 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex [1,885 B]
Get: 23 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get: 24 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,023 B]
Hit http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable/main Sources
Get: 25 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main Sources/DiffIndex [7,819 B]
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/contrib Translation-en_US
Get: 26 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [1,195 B]
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main Sources
Hit http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable/main amd64 Packages
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/non-free Translation-en_US
Get: 27 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [505 B]
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org jessie/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Get: 28 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,819 B]
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en
Hit http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable/main i386 Packages
Get: 29 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [781 B]
Get: 30 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [919 B]
Get: 31 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex [7,819 B]
Hit http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main i386 Packages
Get: 32 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex [781 B]
Get: 33 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex [919 B]
Get: 34 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex [643 B]
Get: 35 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,819 B]
Get: 36 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex [919 B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable Release
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Sources
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Sources
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.grahamedgecombe.com stable/main Translation-en
Ign http://deb-multimedia.org sid/main Translation-en
Fetched 160 kB in 4s (33.6 kB/s)
As an extra data point, I have apt updating and downloading packages
daily with the following /etc/apt/apt.conf.d:
APT::Periodic
{
Update-Package-Lists "1";
Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
AutocleanInterval "7";
};
-- Package-specific info:
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/aptitude-devel/attachments/20151102/0f5c480b/attachment.ksh>
-------------- next part --------------
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?
*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.7.4-1
ii libapt-pkg4.16 1.0.10.2
ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-3.1
ii libc6 2.19-22
ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4
ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-23
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20151024-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.1-3
ii libsqlite3-0 3.9.1-2
ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-23
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-1
ii libxapian22v5 1.2.21-1.2
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none>
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8
ii sensible-utils 0.0.9
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn apt-xapian-index <none>
pn debtags <none>
ii tasksel 3.33
-- no debconf information
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i at md5i.com)
More information about the Aptitude-devel
mailing list