Package: cdebconf Severity: normal Tags: d-i Version: 0.59 I found a very strange problem. The script below should reproduce it, at least run in d-i from the shell in console #2 after grub-installer is loaded. At the first question shown, hit the back button. It seems to hang, and set -x reveals that it's at 'read -r _LINE' inside the confmodule. Now, if I type "hi mom", and enter (nothing is displayed on screen as I do this), it will stop blocking and continue. The last line, which gets the value of the question, includes my "hi mom" in the value. So it's like the dialog box is just not being displayed, but cdebconf is still waiting for me to type input in it and hit enter. I've even used line editing commands, blind, and all happens as I'd expect. #!/bin/sh . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule set -x db_capb backup db_progress START 0 6 grub-installer/progress/title db_progress INFO grub-installer/progress/step_install db_input high grub-installer/apt-installer-failed db_go db_input critical grub-installer/bootdev db_go db_get grub-installer/bootdev The above is nearly the minimal testcase to reproduce this. The set -x, the INFO line and the final db_get can be removed and it will still happen. The progress bar must have been brought up, or the bug will not occur. -- see shy jo
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