Re: Help!! inetd refuses to start with the new netbase package
On Thursday 18 November 1999, at 11 h 35, the keyboard of Andreas Tille
<tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> and then the box stops :-(((((
The debconf postinst seems to hang (there is a comment in it, about a workaround, but the bug still persists).
Workaround: kill it. It works.
Here are the details. ps show:
babeuf:~> ps auxww|grep dpkg
root 278 0.0 2.1 3448 2756 ttyp2 S 17:09 0:00 dpkg --configure -a
root 279 0.0 1.9 3620 2520 ttyp2 S 17:09 0:00 perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/netbase.postinst configure 3.15-4
root 291 0.0 0.8 1912 1028 ttyp2 S 17:09 0:00 sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/netbase.postinst configure 3.15-4
babeuf:~> sudo strace -p 291
read(0,
This is this process (sh ... netbase.postinst) which you have to kill. It hanged on a read.
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