Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP
imurdock@debian.org said:
> 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?
Does dpkg attempt to suspend itself rather than fork off a shell? That would
certainly break in this case. Probably we need a flag to dpkg/dselect to
change this behavior.
Bruce
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