Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:07:41AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 09 dec 21, 18:37:02, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken
> > > > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all.
> > > > Vim, for instance is unusable.
> > > >
> > > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies,
> > > > broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but aptitude
> > > > starts "resolving dependencies" and it soon uses up all the available RAM,
> > > > then all the available swap and the system slows down (thrashing) and then
> > > > freezes.
> > >
> > > Did you try `dpkg --audit`?
> >
> > yes, it returns immediately with no errors and no output.
> >
> > I have tried 'aptitude search '-b' and it returns a list of broken
> > packages. I have manually removed a few and am now down to 51 broken
> > packages, but I'm afraid that even if I remove all the broken packages,
> > aptitude is still going to behave the same way while attempting to
> > resolve all the dependencies and never finish.
> >
> > What would be nice is some command that would install the dependencies
> > of the broken packages, but would that get into the same loop of
> > resolving dependencies that never finishes?
>
> Try checking the output of:
>
> dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii
>
>
> In case there are any packages listed, depending on their state, it
> should be possible to download them manually and install with `dpkg -i`.
After many iterations of installing, autoremoving, updating and
upgrading, some packages were installed along with their dependencies,
but I'm also getting:
E; Packae '<package name>' has no installation candidate
or <package name> is alerady the newest version (<version number>)
dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | wc -l
209
Which is lower than before, but aptitude still runs for hours resolving
dependencies and exhausts RAM and swap. The remaining lines begin with
'ri' and 'rc'.
I will keep trying and again boot this disk on the machine with 32GB RAM.
Hopefully with fewer broken packages and dependencies, it will complete.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
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Thanks for replying.
Augustine
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