up2date crashes und some circumstances

[Andy Green]

On Friday 24 October 2003 12:31, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Fr, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Alexandre Oliva um 12:44:
> > On Oct 24, 2003, Andy Green <fedora at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > > I believe its a bug in up2date triggered when the installed packages
> > > have dependencies on other packages not also selected
> >
> > This is my impression.  It seems that up2date removes .hdr files
> > formerly downloaded from apt repos when it installs the corresponding
> > packages.  Then, if it needs to resolve dependencies, it tries to open
> > the .hdr files it had removed without downloading them again, and gets
> > into an infinite loop.

Could be, but there is no CPU being used IIRC.

> May be, the problem here is a different one. I could track the problem a
> little bit further.
>
> The problems were due to the inclusion of abiword 2.0.0-3 and librsvg2
> 2.4.0-2 into the set of files to be updated.
....
> new package, libcroco. This doesn't work for some reason. As soon, as I
> install libcroco manually from test 3 CD-3 (same version as currently in
> Rawhide), I can use up2date to update abiword as usual.

FWIW my experience was similar, installing test 2 on a machine and trying to 
update from there led to 8-10 'bad 'uns' last week.  One of them I remember 
was rhgb having an unmet dependency to libvte which was in the vte* package, 
which I did not have installed.  So the exact bad package list would quite 
reasonably depend of what you had installed and what was in the repository, 
and if any packages you updated had grown new deps since the installed 
version (I think this happened to rhgb with the details... thing).

-Andy