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

Mon Nov 19 15:57:46 CET 2012

18.11.2012 17:09, Thomas Spuhler kirjutas:
+> 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.
+>
+No he didn't. Thierry, are you sure that your limit is correct? If
+100000 works then i don't see it as an endless loop. Current value seems
+to be too low and there are soon as many bugs about update problems than
+we have about broken draksnapshot.
+
+--
+Sander
+
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