Dselect is hanging at `Configuring packages ...'
I am running `potato', and upgrade packages every day (yes, I'm living
on the edge here).
This morning I ran `dselect', chose "[U]pdate", "[S]elect", and
"[I]nstall" as usual. It showed me 15 packages that it would upgrade
(the following list only shows 14 packages; that's because I upgraded
`debconf' using apt-get, thinking it might fix the problem I'm now
describing):
All packages Updated packages (newer version is available)
Updated Required packages
Updated Required packages in section base
*** Req base bsdutils 2.10f-2 2.10f-3
*** Req base mount 2.10f-2 2.10f-3
*** Req base setserial 2.17-9 2.17-10
*** Req base util-linux 2.10f-2 2.10f-3
Updated Important packages
Updated Important packages in section net
*** Imp net whois 4.4.8 4.4.9
Updated Optional packages
Updated Optional packages in section devel
*** Opt devel cvs 1.10.7-4 1.10.7-5
Updated Optional packages in section doc
*** Opt doc cvs-doc 1.10.7-4 1.10.7-5
Updated Optional packages in section net
*** Opt net samba 2.0.6-4 2.0.6-5
*** Opt net samba-common 2.0.6-4 2.0.6-5
*** Opt net samba-doc 2.0.6-4 2.0.6-5
*** Opt net smbclient 2.0.6-4 2.0.6-5
*** Opt net swat 2.0.6-4 2.0.6-5
Updated Optional packages in section otherosfs
*** Opt otherosf smbfs 2.0.6-4 2.0.6-5
Updated Optional packages in section x11
*** Opt x11 dpsclient 0.5.9.1+000 0.5.9.1+000
Anyway, once I hit the Enter key to start the installation, I saw this:
10:39:39 [/tmp]# dselect
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
14 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/5017kB of archives. After unpacking 56.3kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Configuring packages ...
... and it just hung. The processes that were eating up CPU time were
`config.2668' and `dpkg-preconfigure'.
Any ideas what's wrong? My system is probably not utterly hosed; I
suspect I can configure these packages "by hand", by using apt-get (it
worked for `debconf', at least).
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