Bug#536683: Installation/upgrade freezes when non-standard XKBLAYOUT used

[Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.44
Severity: normal

I came across this too. Removing the xorg.conf file allowed the install to complete.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.28-1     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  xkb-data                      1.6-1      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.9-25     GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information excluded