[Aptitude-devel] Bug#733858: aptitude crashes when installing systemd-sysvinit and upgrading sysvinit at the same time

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Michal,

2014-01-01 13:15 Michal Suchanek:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.8.2-1
>Severity: normal
>
>Hello,
>
>I wanted to try systemd so
>
>1) installed systemd
>
>2) marked non-conflicting version of sysvinit and systemd-sysv for
>install
>
>3) proceeded with installetion
>
>aptitude crashed endlessly printing information about systemd-sysv
>conflicting with the sysvinit currently installed

In principle this is happening with apt (can be a stack overflow due to
recursion, and pkgPackageManager::SmartUnPack calls itself and had
problems with that before, according to the changelog).

But it is possible that it was happening because of aptitude feeding
wrong values for some reason.  However, with this information and no
other reports of people complaining about the same issue, it's difficult
to know what's going on; and right now I cannot set up a similar
environment to try to reproduce it.

I see that you have a mix of systems, but highest priority stable, so I
guess that most packages are from the stable distribution at the time
(didn't check if all versions match, though).

Do you know if this also happened with other packages, or with same
packages but with later versions of aptitude?


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