aptitude -dy full-upgrade hangs after downloading packages

Bug #996114 reported by Alexander List
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Bug Description

Similar behaviour observed in #960728:

After "aptitude update; aptitude -dy full-upgrade", aptitude loops spawning apt-check processes after downloading packages.

Even after rerunning aptitude -dy full-upgrade, it hangs:

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Need to get 0 B/19.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 20.5 kB will be used.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: aptitude 0.6.6-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 8 02:42:44 2012
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-05 (63 days ago)

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Alexander List (alexlist) wrote :
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Daniel Hartwig (wigs) wrote : Re: [Bug 996114] [NEW] aptitude -dy full-upgrade hangs after downloading packages

On 8 May 2012 02:46, Alexander List <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Similar behaviour observed in #960728:
> After "aptitude update; aptitude -dy full-upgrade", aptitude loops
> spawning apt-check processes after downloading packages.

Unrelated. That bug occurs when attempting to install; here we have
download-only (-d) specified.

This is #975793.

 duplicate 975793

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