Re: Dselect is hanging at `Configuring packages ...'

[Todd Suess <tsuess@inspace.net>]

I got this problem last night as well, turns out the culprit was 
the
postinst script for cvs.  I uninstalled cvs and reinstalled it from
scratch
and it works fine after that.

Regards,

Todd




At 10:47 AM 3/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
> 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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