I've just encountered another mysterious "aptitude failed but didn't say
why" occurance. I tracked down the issue with apt-get.
Posted to debian-user
Attempting my usual aptitude update and package download today:
aptitude update && aptitude -dy full-upgrade
... I noticed that the full-upgrade didn't run.
Checking aptitude's exit status, I found it was '255', though no errors
were displayed.
Neither strace nor '-v' options (tried multiple to 4-5) provide any more
illumination. I'll omit strace here, but -v output is:
# aptitude -v update; echo "Status: $?"
.
.
.
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free amd64
Packages/DiffIndex
Fetched 5,406 B in 13s (407 B/s)
Current status: 0 broken [+0], 77
updates [+0], 16521 new [+0]
Trying apt-get, however, gives:
# apt-get update
.
.
.
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release
Unable to find expected entry main/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file
(malformed Release file?)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/dists/unreleased/Release Unable to find
expected entry main/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release
file?)
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
A little more clarity would be helpful.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Oct 16 2010 18:18:04
Compiler: g++ 4.4.5
Compiled against:
apt version 4.10.1
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.10.1
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffb19ab000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f2fb0a3d000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f2fb07ea000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2fb05e4000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f2fb0318000)
libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f2fb00c4000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f2fafce3000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2fafacc000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f2faf835000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0
(0x00007f2faf619000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f2faf3fd000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f2faf0e9000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2faee66000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f2faec50000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2fae8ef000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f2fae6eb000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f2fae4e7000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f2fae2e2000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f2fae0d2000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f2fadeca000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2fb0d66000)
Terminal: rxvt-unicode
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-custom-1- (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg4.10] 0.8.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-4 Boost.Iostreams Library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept1 1.0.4 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.3-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian22 1.2.3-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.41 maintenance and search tools for a
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii sensible-utils 0.0.4 Utilities for sensible alternative
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.88 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
-- no debconf information
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Dr. Ed Morbius
Chief Scientist
Krell Power Systems Unlimited
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