wvdial hangs during setup

[Ashraf Amayreh]

It's really simple. When I updated from 6.06 to 6.10 (!) the setup seemed to just freeze while it worked on wvdial. I've seen a bug similar to this, but my problem doesn't seem to have anything to do with auto-detection (I think). It simply freezes.

I hope this hasn't done anything terrible to the upgrade, I understood that it shouldn't be interrupted. After manually restarting my machine. I removed wvdial and its dependent ubuntu-desktop and reinstalled wvdial using apt-get, after freezing on "Setting up wvdial (1.56-1ubuntu1) ..." I terminated with ctrl-c and got the rest of what you see.

mistknight@mist:~$ sudo apt-get install wvdial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  wvdial
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/88.1kB of archives.
After unpacking 270kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package wvdial.
(Reading database ... 150513 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking wvdial (from .../wvdial_1.56-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

Setting up wvdial (1.56-1ubuntu1) ... (THIS IS WHERE IT HUNG, HAD TO TERMINATE IT)

dpkg: error processing wvdial (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wvdial
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Vaughn (mowgli)]

I just ran into this while upgrading from Edgy to the Feisty Beta. I also remember hitting the problem when upgrading from Dapper to Edgy. I'm on a Dell Inspiron 9200.

[danfourn (danfourn)]

Upgrade from Edgy to Feisty, wvdial hang up on my Toughbook CF-73. I will have to scrub yet again. Advice is to avoid the upgrade tool.