This is true for Dapper I think, not sure if it happened on Edgy for me. It doesn't actually lock up, but actually waits very long time. Ctrl + 4 trick which sends signal to hal daemon, works at least on Dapper.
I guess the actual problem is not in pbuilder, but hal service (init script). -- Hal dependancy breaks publider build https://launchpad.net/bugs/68329 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs