[Aptitude-devel] Bug#457188: aptitude: unexpected empty solution error

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Jiří,

2007-12-20 11:15 Jiří Paleček:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.9-1
>Severity: normal
>
>Hello,
>
>I tried to install the fbdev xorg video driver and got this error from 
>aptitude while resolving dependencies.
>
>The situation is as follows: there are two versions of -video-fbdev, 
>0.4.1-1 (testing) and 0.4.1-4. The former provides -video-driver-1.0, 
>the latter provides -video-driver-2. My version of xorg conflicts with 
>-video-driver-1.0.
>
>What happened: after I selected -video-fbdev, the testing version was 
>selected. This selection conflicts with my xorg, so I went to the 
>resolver. I selected the solution of installing the unstable version, 
>and tried to use that solution. At this moment, I got the error 
>"unexpected empty solution" (or something, it was in Czech). The 
>correct driver package was selected, but xorg still was marked as 
>broken. Even when I've undone everything, xorg was marked as broken 
>although the selection did not contain any conflicts.
>
>When I selected the unstable version in the beginning, everything was OK.

Have you seen this report lately?

I haven't seen any secondings or duplicates in the last few years, and
haven't experience it myself as far as I can remember.

Given that this happened before a time when the resolver was heavily
reworked, I guess that the problem was fixed, or at least heavily
morphed into something else now.


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