Bug#678897: console-setup: setupcon hangs

[Matteo Croce <umulu@teknoraver.net>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.78
Severity: normal

the upgrade process hangs because setupcon hangs:

setupcon -v
Configuring /dev/tty1 /dev/tty2 /dev/tty3 /dev/tty4 /dev/tty5 /dev/tty6
The charmap is UTF-8
BackSpace is ^?
Executing utf_start /dev/tty1.
Configuring /dev/tty1 in Unicode mode.

and then I have to kill it

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.78
ii  debconf                 1.5.43
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.78
ii  xkb-data                2.5.1-1

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.13-33
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian6

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.43
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-22.1
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-7+b1

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  kbd                     1.15.3-9
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.78

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn  console-common  <none>
pn  console-data    <none>
pn  console-tools   <none>
ii  kbd             1.15.3-9

-- debconf information:
  console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
  keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
  console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
  keyboard-configuration/layout:
  keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: it
  keyboard-configuration/variant: Italiana
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
  keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
  keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/guess_font:
  keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
  keyboard-configuration/model: Generica 105 tasti (Intl) PC
  keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: it
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/other:
  keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x16