Package: libx11-6 Version: 4.3.0-2 Severity: critical quoting the postrm script:
# is the line present? if fgrep -qsx "$dir" "$ldsoconf"; then # are there any shared objects in the directory? if [ "$(echo "$dir"/lib*.so.*.*)" = "$dir/lib*.so.*.*" ]; then # glob expansion produced nothing, so no shared libraries are present observe "removing $dir directory from $ldsoconf" fgrep -qsvx "$dir" > "$ldsoconf.dpkg-tmp" mv "$ldsoconf.dpkg-tmp" "$ldsoconf" fi fi Note: fgrep -qsvx "$dir" > "$ldsoconf.dpkg-tmp" should perhaps read fgrep -qsvx "$dir" "$ldsoconf" > "$ldsoconf.dpkg-tmp" Congrats, you just directed fgrep to read from stdin, effectively hangig the process: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bin/chrootapt unstable remove libx11-6 libxpm4 libice6 xfree86-common xlibs-data Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libice6 libx11-6 libxpm4 xfree86-common xlibs-data 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 10.5MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 13171 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libice6 ... Removing libx11-6 ... 17340 pts/0 S 0:28 apt-get -o Dir::State=/usr/local/chroot/unstable/var/state/apt 17345 pts/0 S 0:10 /usr/bin/dpkg --root=/usr/local/chroot/unstable --force-depends 17355 pts/0 S 0:01 sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libx11-6.postrm remove 17363 pts/0 S 0:00 grep -F -qsvx /usr/X11R6/lib This happening on a buildd machine, the log watcher kills the parent process, leaving the package installed which in turn borks further builds by way of dependency conflicts (hence the severity). Please fix. Side note: same bug also affects libxpm4 and perhaps others. Michael