Re: Aptitude says all packages are broken!

[Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:52 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages are
> broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them!
> Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have no idea
> what caused this. Kindly help.
> 
>     $ sudo aptitude install smartmontools
>     ...
>     0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 117 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
>     ...
> 
>     $ sudo aptitude install
>     ...
>     Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: generic_problem_resolver<PackageUniverse>::generic_problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned int, int, const PackageUniverse&) [with PackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: Assertion "bd.broken_under(solution::root_node(initial_broken, universe, weights))" failed.
> 
can you please show us your APT sources?
'cat /etc/apt/sources.list'
-- 
Matthew K Poer