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  After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never  finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-06 00:20 +0100
    Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-12-06 15:30 +0100
    Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-09 19:50 +0100
      Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-10 00:50 +0100
        Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 10:10 +0100
          Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-11 21:00 +0100
            Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-12 09:10 +0100
              Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-13 02:30 +0100

#242705 — After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

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.

Earlier on, I fixed /etc/apt/sources.list and the apt/apt-get/dpkg commands
installed and removed some packages, but now it's at a steady state where
there are no errors according to these commands.

I've tried this operation (the same HD) on a system with 8 GB RAM (the
original system), one with 16 GB and one with 32 GB.  Same result.

I've even tried:

debsums -cs

Find which packages contain the corrupt files.  Returns a list of packages.

debsums -c | xargs -rd '\n' -- dpkg -S | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u

Reinstall the damaged packages:

xargs -rd '\n' -a <(sudo debsums -c | xargs -rd '\n' -- dpkg -S | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u) -- sudo apt-get install -f --reinstall --

Check if no corrupt files remain.  Should return no output if everything ok.

debsums -c

If config files have changed, this will show them.  

debsums -as

But debsums -cs didn't return anything, so apparently nothing is corrupt, at
least as far as apt/dpkg/apt-get are concerned.

Apparently, the apt/dpkg/apt-get sub-systems don't find the problems.
Aptitude knows there's something wrong but can't fix it.

What can I do to make aptitude finish resolving dependencies and fix the
broken packages?  Where can I look for hints? Help please!

Augustine

[1] I've tried all the steps specified here:

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-find-and-fix-broken-packages-on-linux/
https://linuxhint.com/apt_get_fix_missing_broken_packages/

and more.  After so many tries, the same set of dpkg/apt/apt-get commands are
repeated on multiple web sites.

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#242722 — Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

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.

  my recommendation would be to start over and do a fresh install.
if there is any data you need to back up and haven't done that yet
i'd do that first.

  this will likely go a lot faster than trying to figure out what's
broken if you've done something really strange and don't have the
background to figure it out.


  songbird

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#242834 — Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

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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`?

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#242858 — Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

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?

> Kind regards,
> Andrei
> -- 
> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Thanks for replying.

Augustine

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#242877 — Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

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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`.

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#242976 — 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
> -- 
> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Thanks for replying.

Augustine

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#242996 — Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

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On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote:
> 
> 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.

With aptitude you might want to try running

    aptitude keep-all

> The remaining lines begin with
> 'ri' and 'rc'.

The 'rc' packages shouldn't be a problem (see the header of the output 
of an explanation of the flags) and getting rid of them should be as 
simple as

    aptitude purge '?config-files'


The 'ri' means 'dpkg' thinks they are installed, but remove was 
requested.

If you still need them try downloading the .deb files and passing them 
to `dpkg -i` otherwise pass the list to one of `apt purge`,
`aptitude purge` or `dpkg --purge`.

Or it might be taken care of by `aptitude keep-all` ;)


Hope this helps,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#243039 — Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:02:45AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> With aptitude you might want to try running
> 
>     aptitude keep-all

This got rid of the unending loop of resolving dependencies.  Thanks for
the hint!

> > The remaining lines begin with
> > 'ri' and 'rc'.

It also got rid of the 'ri' packages.  Now all that remain are the 'rc'
packages (58 of them), 
> 
> The 'rc' packages shouldn't be a problem (see the header of the output 
> of an explanation of the flags) and getting rid of them should be as 
> simple as
> 
>     aptitude purge '?config-files'

Mmm...  I think there's more to it than that.  For example, kdesudo
shows up in the list with an 'rc', kopete with 'ic' (the only one with
that).  Both give the same "has no installation candidate" error when I
attempt to 'apt-get install kdesudo | kopete'.  They cannot be installed
with apt-get install <package> either.  Even though I did

apg-get install kde-full

and it installed lots of packages that should have been there, kopete and
kdesudo are not in /var/cache/apt/archives and they show in aptitude
with a 'c' in the first column and aptitude cannot be told to install
them.  Mmm... searching packages.debian.org shows that kopete and
kdesudo are not available in 11/bullseye (kopete only in stretch,
buster and experimental), so that explains that.


> The 'ri' means 'dpkg' thinks they are installed, but remove was 
> requested.
> 
> If you still need them try downloading the .deb files and passing them 
> to `dpkg -i` otherwise pass the list to one of `apt purge`,
> `aptitude purge` or `dpkg --purge`.

Thanks for all the help.  Turns out that at least those 2 packages, and
possibly more cannot be found because they're no longer in the release.
I might have other issues, but at least aptitude is useable now, so I
can do whatever cleanup I need to do.

> Or it might be taken care of by `aptitude keep-all` ;)

That did the trick.  Thanks again.

> Hope this helps,
> Andrei
> -- 
> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Augustine

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