I followed your advice and it was one of those scripts that was in an uninterrupted loop (or something like that). However, when I ran it by hand, ie from command line it didn't hang but it didn't seem to do anything either. Later I went into dselect and started removing 'broken packages'. These were numerous. In fact, by the time I was through the networking stopped working. So I reinstalled the system from the ground up and it works fine. Unfortunately, I can no longer study the bogus behavior. On the other hand, my hardware (x86_64) is now in official unstable release (it used to be stable only). Maybe there is some problem with the stable release? Regards, /Adam Joey Hess wrote:
Adam Soltan wrote:Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 105697 files and directories currently installed.)Preparing to replace mozilla-browser 2:1.7.8-1sarge5 (using .../mozilla-browser_2%3a1.7.8-1sarge6_amd64.deb) ...Unpacking replacement mozilla-browser ... <CTRL-C><CTRL-C>So instead of the ctrl-c stuff, run ps fax in another console, and look to see what maintainer script is running (postrm or postinst probably) and what program it's run that's hanging (maybe update-menus?) Then see if you can reproduce the hang running the same program by hand, strace it, and send in a bug report on it.