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Bug#929860: apt-get hangs forever when invoked via timeout



Update:

5)
The problem only affects 'apt-get install', not 'apt-get update'.

6)
A workaround is to use --foreground
  timeout --foreground 1m apt-get -y install bc
This will finish successfully without any delay or strange exit-code.
However, this is a workaround. 'apt-get install' will launch child
processes and if they
should hang only the parent process will be killed.


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