Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST
From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
> I was using dselect for the first time (for real), and it is very,
> very nice. However, while it was upgrading my bash.deb, it stopped to
> query about the confile '/etc/profile'. Fair enough, it was
> different. I chose the 'Z' (?) option to suspend and investigate for
> myself. dpkg was then stopped, but instead of starting a shell, it
> returned to the dselect menu, after which I couldn't do anything, as
> dpkg was locked.
I had a bug report like this before. Can you reproduce it ? If you
have two .deb files which have different versions of a conffile in it
you can keep getting dpkg to prompt by editing the conffile once and
then never answering `y' as you install them alternately.
Were you doing this in the dselect automatically started after
installing the base system? In this case, dselect is started from a
shell script (namely, /root/.bash_profile). Could this be the
problem?
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