* Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> 2007-03-08
> 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'
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20061024)]/ etch main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main
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Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
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