[Aptitude-devel] Bug#842707: aptitude keep-all hangs forever

[Andreas]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.3-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

trying to keep back all possible upgrades with "aptitude keep-all" currently
results in aptitude hanging with aptitude generating a high CPU load (around
84% on my machine, shown by htop). Interestingly this also happens when I have
upgraded all upgradable packages before, so there would actually not be
anything to do.

Kind regards

Andreas



-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.3
Compiler: g++ 6.2.0 20160914
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160917
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7727000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0xb711c000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb70e7000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb70c4000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb70bc000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb6fb9000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6ea1000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 (0xb6e89000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 (0xb6e6e000)
	libboost_system.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.61.0 (0xb6e67000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2/libxapian.so.30 (0xb6c42000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6c25000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6aac000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb6a57000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6a39000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb6882000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xb687d000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0xb6865000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6848000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6835000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xb6807000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0xb67f4000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xb67eb000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb67e5000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80005000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.3-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.3.1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.61.0  1.61.0+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.61.0   1.61.0+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libboost-system1.61.0      1.61.0+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libc6                      2.24-5
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:6.2.0-9
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160917-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.15.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                 6.2.0-9
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160917-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.1-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-11
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.3-1
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.36

-- no debconf information