dselect hangs

[Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

Dselect is hanging when I do an update.  I get the following:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Merging Available information
Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.

And it just hangs there.  apt-get upgrade works fine, so I've been doing
that, but I wondered if anyone has any suggestions.  Also, when it hangs
and I try to kill it, I can't kill the following process using kill -9:

/usr/bin/dpkg --update-avail /var/cache/apt/available

Thanks.