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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote on 2009-09-08:
 
>> I started an aptitude safe-upgrade and left the computer for half an
>> hour.  Upon return I find that there's a suspicious process eating 100%
>> of a CPU for a long time.
[...]
>> /usr/bin/perl-w/usr/share/debconf/frontend/var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.postinstabort-upgrade0.5.5.1-2.3
[...]
>> ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B0 -opost -isig icanon -echo ...}) 
>> = 0
>> <repeats ad nauseam>
>
> (isatty, I think.)

If I had to guess, this loop is somewhere in the guts of debconf
machinery.  So I fear it was probably silently fixed.

But still:

 - do you remember anything more about what was happening when this
   occured (for example, did you interrupt any previous upgrade, and
   was there a terminal available)?

 - did it ever happen again?

 - any other clues or symptoms?

Sorry we didn't get to this in time.



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