Believe it or not this turns out to be a debconf bug: the Python confmodule isn't retrying readline() when it's interrupted by a signal. This upload fixes it for me:
debconf (1.4.72ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
* Backport from trunk (closes: Malone #41921):
- Retry readline() in the Python confmodule if it's interrupted by a
signal.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:07:45 +0100
Believe it or not this turns out to be a debconf bug: the Python confmodule isn't retrying readline() when it's interrupted by a signal. This upload fixes it for me:
debconf (1.4.72ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
* Backport from trunk (closes: Malone #41921):
- Retry readline() in the Python confmodule if it's interrupted by a
signal.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:07:45 +0100