--- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hello all, when I want to get information about a package in apt, I use <quote> apt-cache show $packagename </quote> . When I try this with telepathy-haze (but also with telepathy-gabble or -rakia) I get only the message <quote> E: Handler silently failed </quote> ... :( I am not sure, if this is really a bug in apt and/or a bug in these packages. If I am wrong here, it would be nice someone could reassign it to the right package ... ;) Sorry for the inconvenience Thomas. Debian Release: jessie/sid 500 wheezy-pgdg apt.postgresql.org 500 unstable snapshots.ekiga.net 500 unstable download.jitsi.org 500 testing www.deb-multimedia.org 500 testing ftp.de.debian.org 500 stable security.debian.org 500 stable dl.google.com 500 stable deb.opera.com --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =======================================-+-============= libapt-pkg4.12 (>= 0.9.8.2) | 0.9.8.2 libc6 (>= 2.15) | 2.17-3 libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.8.1-2 libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) | 4.8.1-2 debian-archive-keyring | 2012.4 gnupg | 1.4.12-7 Package's Recommends field is empty. Suggests (Version) | Installed =========================-+-=========== aptitude | 0.6.8.2-1 OR synaptic | 0.80.2 OR wajig | dpkg-dev | 1.16.10 apt-doc | xz-utils | 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 python-apt | 0.8.9--- Output from package bug script ---
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the report, but while I tried for a while to reproduce this I seem to be unable to do so. Usually our bugscript would have attached config and sources which might help to identify what is going on here. But it would also be nice if you could try current unstable versions as they introduce some changes to the 'show' code, which might have fixed this as a by-product. Best regards David Kalnischkies
Hello David, *, did you try <quote> apt-cache show telepathy-haze </quote> ? I still get this error ... :( Which "unstable versions" do you mean? From apt and its dependencies? Have a nice day Thomas.
mhh. I tried "apt-cache show telepathy-haze" and it has all the usual output and just to be sure I tried it again and all fine in my de local as well as with LANG=C or anything else I could come up with. Can you post the output of "apt-config dump" and attach your /etc/apt/sources.list(.d/) files? Usually reportbug should have asked you to do that (or even asked you if it is allowed to do that automatically). I mean apt and libapt-* from "Debian unstable", but we are not in a hurry and I don't want to suggest adding this repository if you haven't configured it, just misread the versionnumber and thought you were an unstable user already. The new version should be in "Debian testing" in a couple of days as well. Best regards David Kalnischkies
Hello David, *, [apt-cache show error message] O.K. Is it O.K. to attach them to this mail? I hope, they goes through ... ;) I am not sure, if it asked me, but if I look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712635, I see some info about my system. Was this not enough? Ah, O.K. Thanks for your explanation :) I will attached the zipped apt-cache dump file as well as a tar.bz2 file with my /etc/apt/sources.list(.d) files :) Thanks for your interest in my bug Thomas.