Bug#334710: xserver-xorg: Hangs in preinstall - migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values

[Colin Turner <ct@piglets.com>]

Package: xserver-xorg
Severity: important


Just did a dist-upgrade today, and the upgrade picked up xserver.org among
many other packages, but the upgrade hangs on an attempt to configure 
xserver-xorg. Interrupting and trying again produced the same result.
Attempts to run /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl did not make any difference.

I've seen similar bugs reporting "template" migration but could find no
reference to this.

Output is below:

-=-
95 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 13 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/112MB of archives.
After unpacking 12.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to
   xserver-xorg.
-=-


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.2
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)