The patch below seems to deal with this bug. Ben.
--- update-inetd-4.36/DebianNet.pm 2010-02-13 17:43:54.000000000 +0000
+++ update-inetd-4.36+nmu1/DebianNet.pm 2010-08-09 04:18:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -323,7 +323,13 @@
&printv("About to $action inetd via invoke-rc.d\n");
my $service = $1;
unless ($fake_invocation) {
- system("invoke-rc.d $service $action >/dev/null");
+ # If we were called by a shell script that also uses
+ # debconf, the pipe to the debconf frontend is fd 3 as
+ # well as fd 1 (stdout). Ensure that fd 3 is not
+ # inherited by invoke-rc.d and inetd, as that will
+ # cause debconf to hang (bug #589487). Don't let them
+ # confuse debconf via stdout either.
+ system("invoke-rc.d $service $action >/dev/null 3>&-");
}
}
}
--- END ---
--
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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