Problem: dselect "Select" function stopped working, hangs

Hi, I am having a problem that makes "dselect" unusable: when I go to the "select" option, it blanks the screen and consumes all cpu but never finishes. I have run "lsof" and found that during this it opens the file "/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i" and nothing else of note. I have just performed

Problem: dselect "Select" function stopped working

Hi, I am using debian 2.1 and I have performed a few operations on deb packages by hand ("apt-get install somepackage" and "apt-get update") and now I can't get dselect to work any more. It hangs in an eternal loop after I go to the "Select" function. I ran "lsof" and it showed that a file "/