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

[Michal Suchanek]

Hello,

On 18 September 2015 at 02:09, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
>
> 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?

I haven't seen this recently so I guess this is fixed with the apt change.

Thanks

Michal