[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1129983: Bug#1129983: aptitude update aborts during package fetch

[Gena Byers]

On 3/7/26 10:41 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote:

Am Sat, Mar 07, 2026 at 09:10:39AM +0100, schrieb Gena Byers:

aptitude update aborts:

$ sudo aptitude update
Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable-security InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing-security InRelease
Ign https://storage.googleapis.com/download.dartlang.org/linux/debian

stable > InRelease

Get: 1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease [47.3 kB]
[...]
Get: 86 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-backports/main arm64 Contents

(deb) T-2026-03-07-0200.23-> F-2026-03-07-0200.23.pdiff [80 B]

12% [Waiting for headers]
322 kB/s 1min 39s*** bit out of range 0 - FD_SETSIZE on fd_set ***:

terminated

Aborted                    sudo aptitude update

Does this happen with 'apt update', too?
(They share most of the code, so I would "hope" yes)

apt update seems to work fine except for some warnings at the end:

$ sudo apt update

Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease> [...]> Hit:69 https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg

stable InRelease

Fetched 122 kB in 2s (53.2 kB/s)
30 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Warning: Conflicting distribution: http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug 
stable-proposed-updates-debug InRelease (expected stable-proposed-updates-debug 
but got bookworm-proposed-updates-debug)
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-riscv64/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug stable-proposed-updates-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'riscv64'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-riscv64/Packages' 
as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug stable-proposed-updates-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'riscv64'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-riscv64/Packages' 
as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug stable-proposed-updates-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'riscv64'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-debug InRelease' doesn't 
support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-debug InRelease' doesn't 
support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-debug InRelease' doesn't 
support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-backports-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-backports-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-backports-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-proposed-updates-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-proposed-updates-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-proposed-updates-debug 
InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug unstable-debug InRelease' 
doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug unstable-debug InRelease' 
doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug unstable-debug InRelease' 
doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug experimental-debug InRelease' 
doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug experimental-debug InRelease' 
doesn't support architecture 'armel'
Notice: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-armel/Packages' as 
repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug experimental-debug InRelease' 
doesn't support architecture 'armel'

I use a lot of repositories, I think it might be related to that.

It would be useful if you could share them. If not publicly at least as
a private reply as reproducing this seems hard otherwise.

I've attached an archive of my sources.d directory (my sources.list is empty)

Based on the aptitude version from current testing, I find it suspect to
have stable-security and co in your sources through. Nothing good comes
from there for a testing system and it might very well confuse tools
trying to reason about "obsolete" packages (disclaimer: which I think
e.g. aptitude does, but I don't use it myself).

 > Nothing changed in aptitude for months, and the apt side shouldn't have

I've had stable, testing and unstable repositories enabled (with apt_preferences to preferentially use packages from testing) for years now, I haven't experienced any weirdness with "obsolete" packages.

that many changes related to that area, so that might very well be
a temporary thing given you experienced it now vs. last week that will
be hard to reproduce/figure out if time moves on.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

sources.list.d.tar.gz
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