[ Please try to adopt the posting/quoting style that I use (interleaved
responses with appropriate trimming). It is in everybody's interest if
each individual message by itself is easily understandable, with the
relevant part of its "history" in chronological order. ]
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:35:25 -0500, mike wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote earlier:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in
SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting
According to bug report 669060 this is supposed to be fiexd by the
latest version of apt (0.9.1). I downloaded this and installed it with
dpkg but the error still comes up.
Did you upgrade libapt-pkg4.12 to version 0.9.1 as well? That seems to
have fixed this problem for me.
I am still new at this to a point what wood be the best way to go about
fixing this sense apt and aptitude seam to have broken itself
Aptitude was not completely broken on my system: I could no longer do a
full upgrade all at once, but it was possible to upgrade just the
critical apt packages with aptitude without running into the error
quoted above. You can try if any of the following commands work:
aptitude upgrade '~i?source-package(^apt$)'
aptitude upgrade apt libapt-pkg4.12
apt-get install apt libapt-pkg4.12
If none of the above works then you can download the packages manually
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.9.1_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/libapt-inst1.5_0.9.1_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/libapt-pkg4.12_0.9.1_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
and install them directly with dpkg (as root or with sudo):
dpkg -i apt_0.9.1_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
dpkg -i libapt-pkg4.12_0.9.1_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
dpkg -i libapt-inst1.5_0.9.1_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
If you do not get lucky with any of the above then show us the error
messages that you get.