[Bug 2132394] Re: apt full-upgrade aborts on assertion failure

[Julian Andres Klode]

It seems you have force-enabled and amd64 repository without having
configured amd64 as a foreign architecture, resulting in amd64 being
treated as a "barbarian" architecture, which is not generally
recommended as it is not a supported mode of general operation.

I am unable to reproduce your particular issue with the provided solver
dump. If you could produce a backtrace that would help. Normally a core
dump should be generated automatically in /var/crash after running apt
and failing the assertion.

Running `apport-bug THAT_CRASH_FILE`, replacing `THAT_CRASH_FILE` with
the actual crash file should result in apport filing a new bug with
crash info. I don't know if there's a way to get the crash dump into
this bug report, but we could mark a new one as a duplicate.

Alternatively you can install gdb and run apt in it and then include the
output of bt.

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Title:
  apt full-upgrade aborts on assertion failure

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Running any of the following commands:

      apt full-upgrade
      apt dist-upgrade
      apt-get full-upgrade
      apt-get dist-upgrade

  crashes with the following assertion failure:

      apt-get: ./apt-pkg/solver3.cc:65: bool
  APT::Solver::CompareProviders3::operator()(APT::Solver::Var,
  APT::Solver::Var): Assertion `not va.end() && not vb.end()' failed.

  This is apt 3.1.6ubuntu2 arm64 on Ubuntu 25.10.

  I have the following repositories enabled in sources.list.d:

      fex-emu-ubuntu-fex-questing
      mozillateam-ubuntu-ppa-questing
      nvidia-container-toolkit
      steam-stable
      tomtomtom-ubuntu-yt-dlp-questing
      ubuntu

      Types: deb
      URIs: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/fex-emu/fex/ubuntu/
      Suites: questing
      Components: main

      Types: deb
      URIs: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu/
      Suites: questing
      Components: main

      deb https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-
  container/stable/deb/$(ARCH) /

      deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
      deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam

      Types: deb
      URIs: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/tomtomtom/yt-dlp/ubuntu/
      Suites: questing
      Components: main

      Types: deb
      URIs: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/
      Suites: questing questing-updates questing-backports questing-security
      Components: main restricted universe multiverse

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.10
  Package: apt 3.1.6ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.17.0-6.6-generic 6.17.1
  Uname: Linux 6.17.0-6-generic aarch64
  ApportVersion: 2.33.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: arm64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: sway
  Date: Tue Nov 25 11:13:37 2025
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-11-20 (5 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" - Release arm64 (20251007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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