Ubuntu
debconf package

debconf refuses to die

Bug #779130 reported by Phillip Susi
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: debconf

Sometimes I go to install mdadm on the livecd and forget to add --no-install-recommends so it tries to pull in postfix. The debconf for postfix comes up and I realize my mistake and want to abort, but debconf ignores ctrl-c as well as ctrl-z, and even closing the terminal window does not kill it, so it holds the apt lock open and needs manually killed.

Trying to reproduce the behavior with dpkg-reconfigure it still ignores ctrl-c and ctrl-z, but does die when closing the terminal window.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

I thought that dpkg-reconfigure died, but just found a whiptail process hogging the cpu that had been run from perl, run from dpkg-reconfigure, all running away without a terminal.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Wow... 7 years and no response.

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