Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-2 Severity: important
My aptitude has entered a catastrophic state: it wants to delete an infinite number of system critical packages. I naturally wish to clear this state and start from fresh. [Incidentally, PLEASE don't tell me to upgrade my aptitude first. I can't, at the moment. ;-] The online help doesn't seem to indicate a "clear pending updates" key sequence. There doesn't seem to be anything in any of the menus which does this. I've tried searching the fine manual (which at ~180kB is too big to read through all the way) - I searched for "clear", "undo" and one or two other things, without luck. The normal expedient here, of course, would be to quit the program and start again. However, aptitude "helpfully" preserves this catastrophe in some state file for the next time you run it. ;-( The fine manual doesn't identify this file - otherwise, I could simply delete it. THIS IS A BUG!!!! The man page doesn't have a FILES section identifying the file. THIS IS ALSO A BUG!!!! C-c'ing out of the program, as suggested by the FM, doesn't help. Incidentally2, I tried checking the online manual (presumably up to date) at http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/, but this didn't help me either. So, assuming there is _some_ way I can clear this state, I should be able to find this in the manual. Right at the moment my aptitude is unusable. I'd much appreciate a tip to get me going again. Thanks in advance for fixing the FM! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-4 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
