Bug#34397: dpkg: Upgrade from hamm, via apt-get, hangs when selecting xserver-common

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

scottkj@londo.prl.research.philips.com writes ("Bug#34397: dpkg: Upgrade from hamm, via apt-get, hangs when selecting xserver-common"):
> Selecting previously deselected package xserver-common.
> 
> It remained at this point for about 10 mins, so I killed the dpkg process.
> After that I had to run "dpkg --configure -a" to tidy up after the kill,
> then re-run "apt-get -f dist-upgrade", which proceeded to completion with
> no further problems.

Can you reproduce this problem ?  I've not heard of such a bug before;
it seems likely that (eg) the xserver-common maintainer scripts might
have been waiting for input.

Branden: can you take a look at this report and see if you have any
ideas ?

Thanks,
Ian.