Turns out I was wrong to say that using pkgsel/include was a sufficient workaround -- there's too much stuff that Puppet does to make installing all those packages in pkgsel/include practical.
I have, however, gotten a puppetless reproduction method. Just set preseed/late_command to something like: apt-get install -y postfix And the hang will magically present itself. The symptoms I'm getting are that the config script is trying to read from fd 0, which is a pipe to an fd in dpkg-preconfigure, but dpkg-preconfigure is in wait4() on the config script. One interesting data point is that the problem seems to be restricted to packages that use Perl for their config scripts. Installing less or ssl-certs, for instance, doesn't hang, but postfix does. It might not actually be a perl vs shell problem (I'm sure Postfix's config script is more complicated than less') but since it happens at dpkg-preconfigure time, I doubt it can be something like attempting to start a daemon or something like that. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
