Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing "init" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

This is reproducible on demand \o/

I realised that the VM image had a few unneeded packages, so I did

# apt-get remove --purge x11-common libx11-6 libx11-data

then

# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

and got the same result as my first run.

On a *second* run I did not do that purge up-front and the upgrade did
*not* block in the same way.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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