Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: normal
Running something like aptitude --assume-yes do-something >aptitude.log 2>&1 & will hang after downloading packages. Just bringing aptitude in the foreground without providing any input suffices for aptitude to continue. This makes aptitude unsuitable for batch processing of installation tasks. Note: I do not call aptitude directly, I just run a script that uses aptitude (or apt which can run in the background just fine but fails on missing packages). -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 02:43:34 Compiler: g++ 4.3.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb783d000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0xb776f000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7731000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb772a000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7666000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb75a5000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb744f000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb743a000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7421000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7332000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb730c000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb72ff000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb71bb000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb71b7000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb71b2000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb783e000) Terminal: rxvt-unicode $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.10.1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) pn tasksel <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org