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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi shirish,

2014-04-12 00:52 shirish शिरीष:
>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.


This looks to me as a problem with the package installations /
uninstallation scripts.  If the scripts do strange things and hang,
there is not much that aptitude can do there, until there is a new
version of the package that has the scripts working properly and solves
the mess.

It looks like this package had serious issues at the time, c.f. [1].  I
don't know if the issue is related, though.

In any case, could you purge the package in the end, after perhaps
upgrading to a new version of the package, or did the problem continue
for a while / until now?


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752231


Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>