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

Robert Fox list at foxconsult.net
Mon Nov 19 19:08:08 CET 2012


On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 16:57 +0200, Sander Lepik wrote:
> 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
> 

I changed the value to 10000 as well and it worked.  So it is definitely
too low of a limit (1000) -

Cheers,
Robert




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