Bug#42414: apt-get, Correcting dependancies hangs (pre-slink system)

[joost witteveen <joostje@cistron.nl>]

Subject: apt-get: Correcting dependancies hangs (pre-slink system).
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.11
Severity: normal

I've got a system that I setup from debian unstable in march 1998.
I've just upgraded libc6, and a few others so that I can install
apt. And I've installed apt.

Now I asked apt-get to "-f install", and it says:
# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies...

And there it hangs. Doesn't use CPU, it just hangs. Strace says:
  gettimeofday({933710828, 71741}, NULL)  = 0
  gettimeofday({933710828, 77133}, NULL)  = 0
  gettimeofday({933710828, 79986}, NULL)  = 0
  gettimeofday({933710828, 83975}, NULL)  = 0
  gettimeofday({933710828, 86748}, NULL)  = 0
  gettimeofday({933710828, 88851}, NULL)  = 0
  ) = 34ng Dependency Tree... DoneTree... Don"..., 34
  write(1, "\n", 1
  )                       = 1
  write(1, "Correcting dependencies...", 26Correcting dependencies...) = 26
  brk(0x8086000)                          = 0x8086000
  brk(0x8089000)                          = 0x8089000
  brk(0x808e000)                          = 0x808e000

And that was it.

One more interesting thing is that the debian archive I'm giving
apt-get (in /etc/apt/sources.list) points to a archive with
only Packages.gz  admin  base  devel  interpreters  libs  net  text  utils  x11
in it, not the other sections. (and only potato/unstable).

Upgrading my normal (reasonably up-to-date) system works OK with
the same archive.

Thanks,

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux stelo.musejo.nl 2.1.99 #1 Sun Mar 1 15:21:35 CET 1998 i586
 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-0pre2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2      The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)

-- 
joostje