>   What if you run a script that echos a message and then execs aptitude,
> like this, using sudo? 

It prints "Starting..." immediately and the freeze does not occur. It waits 
for five seconds before anything else is printed (e.g. the progress messages 
for "update") (is this normal?), but the system is still responsive.

Marcus



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