This happened during an upgrade from karmic to lucid. I looked at the process list and noticed that the lucid installer had forked out to call debconf, like this:
30802 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/uw-imapd.postinst configure 8:2007b~dfsg-1.1build1 30811 pts/1 Z+ 0:00 \_ [uw-imapd.postin] <defunct> so after about 5 minutes of waiting, I did some straceing and noticed that debconf was just reading over and over against a resource that was not available, (guessing it was trying to talk to a socket from the uw- imapd.postin which was defunct) assuming that there was no end to the read loop, I terminated the debconf uw-imapd.postinst process with "kill -9 30802" and the lucid installer continued on but gave me the warning about uw-imapd not being installed correctly. I can re-install and fix it easily enough. -- package uw-imapd 8:2007b~dfsg-1.1build1 failed to install/upgrade: imapd.pem already installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
