[Aptitude-devel] Bug#842707: aptitude keep-all hangs forever

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi,

2016-10-31 14:53 Andreas:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.8.3-1+b1
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>trying to keep back all possible upgrades with "aptitude keep-all" currently
>results in aptitude hanging with aptitude generating a high CPU load (around
>84% on my machine, shown by htop). Interestingly this also happens when I have
>upgraded all upgradable packages before, so there would actually not be
>anything to do.

Do you have GzipIndexes indexes enabled in apt/aptitude config?

I seem to remember that there were problems related with this in the
past.


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