Bug#845310: aptitude: Update>>"Loading cache" stuck (loop/wait forever) for buggy(?) repo

[Peter Gervai]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.3-1+b2
Severity: normal

When lists contain

deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/AsamK:/RetroShare/Debian_8.0/ /

downloading the indexes goes well, but after "Loading cache" it's stuck forever, don't
even start the progress bar counting.

"Quit" works, and after restart the new indexes seem to be in place and working.


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.3
Compiler: g++ 6.2.0 20161103
Compiled against:
apt version 5.0.0
NCurses version 6.0
libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160917
cwidget version: 0.5.17
Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd53bf8000)
libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fc5878fc000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fc5876cc000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fc5874a2000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc58729b000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fc586f9e000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc586c94000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc586a7c000)
libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc586863000)
libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc58665f000)
libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fc586251000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc586034000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc585cb1000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc5859ad000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc585796000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc5853f8000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc5851f4000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fc584fdd000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc584dc0000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc584bb0000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc58498d000)
liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fc58477b000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc584573000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc58436c000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000563748876000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.8.3-1
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.3.1
ii libboost-filesystem1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii libc6 2.24-5
ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1
ii libgcc1 1:6.2.1-4
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160917-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.15.1-1
ii libstdc++6 6.2.1-4
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160917-1
ii libxapian30 1.4.1-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-11
ii sensible-utils 0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.49
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none>
pn debtags <none>
pn tasksel <none>

-- no debconf information

[Axel Beckert]

Control: forcemerge 834790 -1
Control: severity 834790 important
Control: tags 834790 - moreinfo

Hi Peter,

Peter Gervai wrote:
> When lists contain
>
> deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/AsamK:/RetroShare/Debian_8.0/ /
>
> downloading the indexes goes well, but after "Loading cache" it's stuck forever, don't
> even start the progress bar counting.
>
> "Quit" works, and after restart the new indexes seem to be in place and working.

Yes, that's a known issue (see https://bugs.debian.org/834790 and
https://bugs.debian.org/838560) which is not yet solved. But we're
fully aware of it.

Regards, Axel
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