Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.19 I'm seeing the same problem here (i.e. dselect dying after upgrading):
----------------------------------------------------------- [...] Hit ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch woody/non-free Release Fetched 3653kB in 2m36s (23.4kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Merging Available information Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. Information about 9201 package(s) was updated. dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success prompt # ----------------------------------------------------------- When I rerun dselect (and update again) everything is fine. I'm not sure I can reproduce this. It seems to only happen when there's some new stuff to get. I'll try a strace next time if that helps. I'm working from konsole (KDE console) with no screen or any special frills. *t -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tpo2 2.4.16 #2 Fri Jan 4 18:17:17 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library
