Re: aptitude stuck

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:31:28AM -0400, Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> was heard to say:
> Today's run of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' had been running for over an
> hour and was using half my memory when I killed it. The status line was:
> 
> open: 107756; closed: 119093; defer: 107181; conflict: 167
> 
> There's evidently some situation it can't resolve. How can I figure out
> what package(s) cause the problem?

  Which version of aptitude do you have?

  You could add "--log-resolver --file-file=aptitude.log" and send me the
first few megabytes of output.

  Also, can you add "-o aptitude::cmdline::resolver-dump=aptitude-resolver.dump"
to the command-line and then send me the file 'aptitude-resolver.dump'?

    Thanks,
  Daniel