On Jo, 09 dec 21, 18:37:02, A. F. Cano wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > > > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. > > > Vim, for instance is unusable. > > > > > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies, > > > broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but > > > aptitude > > > starts "resolving dependencies" and it soon uses up all the available RAM, > > > then all the available swap and the system slows down (thrashing) and then > > > freezes. > > > > Did you try `dpkg --audit`? > > yes, it returns immediately with no errors and no output. > > I have tried 'aptitude search '-b' and it returns a list of broken > packages. I have manually removed a few and am now down to 51 broken > packages, but I'm afraid that even if I remove all the broken packages, > aptitude is still going to behave the same way while attempting to > resolve all the dependencies and never finish. > > What would be nice is some command that would install the dependencies > of the broken packages, but would that get into the same loop of > resolving dependencies that never finishes?
Try checking the output of:
dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii
In case there are any packages listed, depending on their state, it
should be possible to download them manually and install with `dpkg -i`.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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