dselect stopped after trying to update menu.lst

["[KS]" <lists04@fastmail.fm>]

Hello,

I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to
see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything,
so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any.

I was upgrading my system using dselect and after purging
linux-image-2.6.14-2-686, it was probably doing something related to
splash image (I didn't have splash image on the machine before this
upgrade). It didn't find any splash image and said "skipping...". It
updated menu.lst and now is sitting there doing nothing :( There were
two initramfs related bugs marked as critical #361270 and #358397. I
wonder if one of those were a reason of this behaviour!

I will leave it running till the morning so as to wait for
responses/suggestions on how to proceed from here.

Thanks,
/ks

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grave bugs of python-cairo (-> 2.4, 2.3) <done>
 #325379 - python-cairo: undefined symbol: cairo_ps_surface_create
critical bugs of initramfs-tools (-> 0.68b) <open>
 #361270 - update-initrams doesn't call lilo, when grub is around
grave bugs of busybox ( -> 1:1.1.3-2) <open>
 #163501 - busybox: cp -a doesn't copy symlinks
grave bugs of initramfs-tools (-> 0.68b) <open>
 #358397 - initramfs-tools: Fails to install
grave bugs of python-gnome2 (-> 2.12.4-3) <open>
 #354614 - foomatic-gui: segfaults when invoked
Summary:
 python-cairo(1 bug), busybox(1 bug), initramfs-tools(2 bugs),
python-gnome2(1 bug)
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