On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 07:07:21AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:31:28AM -0400, Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> was > heard to say: > > Today's run of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' had been running for over an > > hour and was using half my memory when I killed it. The status line was: > > > > open: 107756; closed: 119093; defer: 107181; conflict: 167 > > > > There's evidently some situation it can't resolve. How can I figure out > > what package(s) cause the problem? > > Which version of aptitude do you have? > > You could add "--log-resolver --file-file=aptitude.log" and send me the > first few megabytes of output. > > Also, can you add "-o > aptitude::cmdline::resolver-dump=aptitude-resolver.dump" > to the command-line and then send me the file 'aptitude-resolver.dump'?
I did send this to you but have not heard back. Just checking if I need to resend it. In the meantime, I'm using "apt-get -s upgrade" to generate a list of potential upgrade packages and then updating them with aptitude. -- "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." -- Rudyard Kipling Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100503172355.gr30...@niof.net