In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages are
broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them!
Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have no idea
what caused this. Kindly .

$ sudo aptitude install smartmontools
...
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 117 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
...

$ sudo aptitude install
...
Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: generic_problem_resolver<PackageUniverse>::generic _problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned int, int, const PackageUniverse&) [with PackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: Assertion "bd.broken_under(solution::root_node(initial_broke n, universe, weights))" failed.

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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:52 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages are
> broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them!
> Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have no idea
> what caused this. Kindly .
>
> $ sudo aptitude install smartmontools
> ...
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 117 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
> ...
>
> $ sudo aptitude install
> ...
> Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: generic_problem_resolver<PackageUniverse>::generic _problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned int, int, const PackageUniverse&) [with PackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: Assertion "bd.broken_under(solution::root_node(initial_broke n, universe, weights))" failed.
>
can you please show us your APT sources?
'cat /etc/apt/sources.list'
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* Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> 2007-03-08
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:52 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> > In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages are
> > broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them!
> > Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have noidea
> > what caused this. Kindly .
> >
> > $ sudo aptitude install smartmontools
> > ...
> > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 117 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
> > ...
> >
> > $ sudo aptitude install
> > ...
> > Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: generic_problem_resolver<PackageUniverse>::generic _problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned int, int, const PackageUniverse&) [withPackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: Assertion "bd.broken_under(solution::root_node(initial_broke n, universe, weights))" failed.
> >
> can you please show us your APT sources?
> 'cat /etc/apt/sources.list'

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20061024)]/ etch main contrib

deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main

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Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages are
> broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them!
> Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have no idea
> what caused this. Kindly .
>
> $ sudo aptitude install smartmontools
> ...
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 117 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
> ...
>
> $ sudo aptitude install
> ...
> Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: generic_problem_resolver<PackageUniverse>::generic _problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned int, int, const PackageUniverse&) [with PackageUniverse = aptitude_universe]: Assertion "bd.broken_under(solution::root_node(initial_broke n, universe, weights))" failed.
>
>

1. The Aptitude package removal problem ("117 to remove") might be
resolved using Florian's magic bullet:

# aptitude keep-all

(see
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Apt...ic_and_Apt-get)

2. The broken packages might be fixed using aptitude with the "-f"
switch (see man 8 aptitude):

# aptitude -f install


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