[Mageia-dev] Broken Mageia-Update (Urpmi)

Sun Nov 18 16:09:37 CET 2012

On Sunday, November 18, 2012 05:20:09 AM Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> 18.11.2012 13:30, Thierry Vignaud kirjoitti:
+> > On 18 November 2012 11:38, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
+> >>> Bug has been filed:
+> >>> https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=looping+forever
+> >>> 
+> >>> Updating Cauldron is broken as of this morning -
+> >>> 
+> >>> [root at mainfox rfox]# urpmi --auto-update -v
+> >> 
+> >> [...]
+> >> 
+> >>> detecting looping forever while trying to resolve dependancies.
+> >>> Aborting... Try again with '-vv --debug' options
+> >>> at
+> >>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Resol
+> >>> ve.pm line 1061. unlocking rpm database
+> >>> unlocking urpmi database
+> >> 
+> >> It seems the loop threshold Resolve.pm:1061 is way too low and detects
+> >> looping when there in fact isn't any. I bumped it up by several orders
+> >> of magnitude locally and then urpmi worked again.
+> > 
+> > To what value did you bump it?
+> 
+> To 100000, but that was just a random value since I mainly just wanted
+> the upgrade to work. I don't know what would be a reasonable value.
+Did you upgrade it on the server? if yes, this didn't solve the problem.
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
+