[Aptitude-devel] Bug#817776: [aptitude] SIGABRT when quitting curses mode after unresolvable conflicts

[Katsuhiko Nishimra]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:33:55AM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 
> I think that I solved the problem in a similar way as the other one.
Great, thank you for your quick fix.
> 
> The problem is that I cannot reproduce the situation by getting the
> "Resolve these dependencies by hand?", so I cannot test whether it
> worked or not.
Is the fixed package or the patch available?
If I can get it, I'll test it and report you a result.
> 
> I forcibly install and remove some packages with dpkg to conflict with
> installed ones, and then do a variety of actions (upgrades, purges etc;
> of important packages such as libc6 or systemd), using full resolver,
> safe resolver, enabling and disabling auto-fix-broken... but in all
> cases, either I get the typical prompt "Accept solution?" or the
> resolver spends lots and lots of time (> 10 minutes) trying to solve the
> problem without offering me to resolve by hand.
> 
> I cannot to afford at this moment to try too hard and risk breaking the
> system for real, so it would be very nice if you (or other readers)
> could check if this indeeds solves the situation in the next release and
> report back whether it worked or not -- I am quite confident that it
> does, so marking as +pending.
> 
> 
> ... and thanks for the detailed reports and persistence, in any case!
> 
> 
> Cheers.
> -- 
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>

Regards,
Katsuhiko