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

[Thomas Spuhler]

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.

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Best regards
Thomas Spuhler