Freezes when answering dialog regarding bash-completion

[Tomas Lauridsen]

Binary package hint: update-manager

During todays automatic update, I encountered a problem.

When updating "bash-completion" the user/I gets prompted by a dialog-window
in order to choose which configuration file should be selected, because of local changes (?)

A combo-box allows me to make a side-by-side diff (which I chose) - then I got an output
window with a not-so-readable output.
After reading the text I closed the window and chose another option (forgot which) and
pressed "forward" -
the dialog-window now seemed to be frozen (not responding) - therefore I (forced) closed the window

I was now left in the black terminal window in update-manager
I entered "exit" and then the update process continued.

When the remaining packages was updated, the update-manager retried to install
bash-completion but with same result - see output below.
I do not exactly recall which option I chose from the combo-box, however I did not fiddle
around with diffs of any kind.... I chose a new configuration.. but not maintainers version...
AFAIR.

output from update-manager:
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Errors were encountered while processing:
 bash-completion
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up bash-completion (20060301-3ubuntu1) ...
root@laptop:/home/trol#
root@laptop:/home/trol#
root@laptop:/home/trol# exit
exit
The application 'frontend' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
dpkg: error processing bash-completion (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
/usr/share/debconf/confmodule: line 42: printf: write error: Broken pipe
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bash-completion

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# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04