[Aptitude-devel] Bug#373846: aptitude: Resolving dependencies uses all system memory

[Francois Gouget]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Followup-For: Bug #373846

Dear Maintainer,

I am running into this problem too. I have been trying to upgrade my Debian Testing
system for the past three weeks to no avail. The problem is that the libstdc++6 library
The problem is that the libstdc++6 library is creating a ton of conflicts so that typing
'e' to get to the conflict resolution dialog causes aptitude to use up all the memory
(over 10GB) until it gets killed. As a result I have been unable to upgrade my system
for the past three weeks, resulting in more and more packages being upgradable, which
gets aptitude in a worse spot each time.

This issue already happened over a year ago so this is nothing new.


-- 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 6.0.20150810
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd38f24000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f26ed99b000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f26ed76b000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f26ed540000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f26ed33a000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f26ed024000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f26ecd56000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f26ecb3e000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f26ec727000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f26ec509000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f26ec1fd000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f26ebefc000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f26ebce5000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f26eb93c000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f26eb739000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f26eb534000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f26eb319000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f26eb109000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f26eaee5000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f26eacdd000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f26eaad7000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000563212354000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.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           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.10
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-4
ii  libc6                     2.19-19
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.1.1-14
ii  libncursesw5              6.0+20150810-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.1.1-14
ii  libtinfo5                 6.0+20150810-1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.21-1

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:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.33

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