Bug#176643: apt (and dselect) not updating the installed and/or available lists
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I'm running mostly stable, with some "testing" and "unstable" packages (mostly
cupsd, which is somewhat buggy in stable).
Very recently, apt started giving me strange behaviour : for example, apt-get
doesn't records its own installation :
yod:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u -s | less
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
cupsys fortunes-fr xine-ui
The following packages will be upgraded
r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-base-latex r-doc-html
r-recommended
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Inst r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
yod:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
cupsys fortunes-fr xine-ui
The following packages will be upgraded
r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-base-latex r-doc-html
r-recommended
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/10.6MB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. # may come
# from a brevous attempt
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 110690 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace r-base-core 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-core_1.6.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-core ...
Preparing to replace r-base-html 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-html_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-html ...
Preparing to replace r-base-latex 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-latex_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-latex ...
Preparing to replace r-base 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base ...
Preparing to replace r-base-dev 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-dev_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-dev ...
Preparing to replace r-doc-html 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-doc-html_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-doc-html ...
Preparing to replace r-recommended 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-recommended_1.6.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-recommended ...
Setting up r-base-core (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base-html (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base-latex (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base-dev (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-doc-html (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-recommended (1.6.2-1) ...
yod:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u -s | less
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
cupsys fortunes-fr xine-ui
The following packages will be upgraded
r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-base-latex r-doc-html
r-recommended # Aaaaargh ! You've just did it, dumpkopf !
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Inst r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
yod:~#
dselect exhibits similar behaviour.
/etc/apt/apt.conf :
APT::Default-Release "stable";
DPkg
{
Options {"--force-overwrite";"--force-downgrade";}
}
APT::Cache-Limit "16777216";
This might also be a bug related to libc6 or libstdc++, bu I did not (yet)
have reason to suspect these packages. I checked that this is *not* related to
bug #169077 (library name problem with libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2).
Perusing the docs (apt-get, dpkg, dselect) didn't lead me to a possible
solution. I'm stuck solid, and can't think of a solution short of reinstalling.
I might have also filed this bug as critical, since my system seems now not
updatable (at least not without a lot of manual, undocumented work).
Sincerely,
Emmanuel Charpentier
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux yod 2.4.20 #1 Thu Dec 26 12:48:34 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
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