[Aptitude-devel] Bug#939023: aptitude purge fails with [ ERR] Writing extended state information

[Nikolaus Rath]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.11-7
Severity: normal

# Mark all non-essential packages for deletion
# aptitude purge --schedule-only '~i !~E'
[ ERR] Writing extended state information

Not sure what to make of it. My first guess was insufficient disk space
- but there is plenty in all mountpoints.

Is there anything I can do to get more information? There doesn't
seem to be a --debug option.



-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.11
Compiler: g++ 8.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.2
  NCurses version 6.1
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20181013
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe7ab3f000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f1a38431000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f1a383f7000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f1a383c9000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f1a383c0000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f1a382ba000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f1a38198000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f1a38178000)
	libboost_system.so.1.67.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f1a38171000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f1a37f45000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1a37f24000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1a37da0000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1a37c1d000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1a37c01000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1a37a40000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f1a37a26000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1a37808000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f1a377f5000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f1a377cd000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f1a377ac000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f1a3770c000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f1a376e6000)
	libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f1a37645000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1a38a59000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1a37640000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f1a37634000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f1a3762b000)
	libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f1a3750d000)
	libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f1a374ea000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
pn  aptitude-common           <none>
pn  libapt-pkg5.0             <none>
pn  libboost-iostreams1.67.0  <none>
pn  libboost-system1.67.0     <none>
pn  libc6                     <none>
pn  libcwidget3v5             <none>
pn  libgcc1                   <none>
pn  libncursesw6              <none>
pn  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         <none>
pn  libsqlite3-0              <none>
pn  libstdc++6                <none>
pn  libtinfo6                 <none>
pn  libxapian30               <none>

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  <none>
pn  sensible-utils                 <none>

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

-- no debconf information