[Aptitude-devel] Bug#874012: aptitude: "Internal Error, No file name" on reinstall request

[Yann Dirson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.7-1
Severity: normal

texlive-htmlxml is in unconfigured state and postinst will not complete
without a reinstall (files got missing after downgrade due to Replaces
issue).  But aptitude would not reinstall it:

root at home:~# aptitude reinstall texlive-htmlxml
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  texlive-htmlxml
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cpp-7{u} gnustep-base-common{u} gnustep-common{u} libasan4{u}
  libboost-test1.62.0{u} libboost-timer1.62.0{u}
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
      tex-common texlive texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils
      texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-games
      texlive-generic-recommended texlive-lang-french texlive-latex-base
      texlive-latex-extra
        texlive-latex-recommended texlive-luatex texlive-metapost
	texlive-pictures texlive-xetex
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 6 to remove and 396 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 158 MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
E: Internal Error, No file name for texlive-htmlxml:amd64
	
bundle file available if needed


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.7
Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170406
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.1
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.1

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffde3bc6000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f51b48c2000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f51b4692000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f51b4468000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f51b4261000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f51b3f66000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f51b3c59000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f51b3a41000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f51b3828000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f51b3624000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f51b3210000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f51b2ff3000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f51b2c70000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f51b296c000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f51b2755000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f51b23b6000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f51b21b2000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f51b1f9b000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f51b1d7f000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f51b1b6f000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f51b1949000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f51b1737000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f51b152f000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f51b1328000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055ba2253f000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1990, 'stable'), (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.7-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.4.7
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libc6                      2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-6
ii  libgcc1                    1:7.1.0-10
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20161126-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.19.3-3
ii  libstdc++6                 7.1.0-10
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20161126-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.4-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.49
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  debtags                         2.1.2
ii  tasksel                         3.39

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