Bug#175606: tetex-base: postinst hangs when installing

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0.2+20021025-5
Severity: serious
Justification: buildd killer

The postinst hangs on at least ia64 and hppa; probably others too.
'ps auxfww' output follows.  I haven't had time to look any further,
hopefully it'll either be obvious or reprdoucible.  If not, please
say, I can get more information.

root     17822  3.0  1.3 14956 13888 pts/1   S    23:19   0:02  |               \_ dpkg --configure -a
root     17833  0.5  0.4  8236 4928 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                   \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst configure
root     17843  0.1  0.1  2784 1272 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                       \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst configure
root     17858  0.3  0.1  2932 1416 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                           \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/updmap --cnffile /etc/texmf/updmap.cfg --outputdir /etc/texmf/dvips
root     18008  0.0  0.1  2932 1412 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                               \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/updmap --cnffile /etc/texmf/updmap.cfg --outputdir /etc/texmf/dvips
root     18011  0.0  0.0  1528  448 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                               |   \_ cat
root     18009  0.0  0.0  1620  556 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                               \_ grep -v ^%
root     18010  0.0  0.0  1616  540 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                               \_ grep .
root     18012  0.0  0.0 35372  600 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                               \_ sort
root     18013  0.0  0.0  1540  468 pts/1    S    23:19   0:00  |                               \_ uniq

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James