wu-ftpd fails to install

[rob_dobbs]

Binary package hint: wu-ftpd

On install, hangs during setup of ftpusers

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Package: wu-ftpd 2.6.2-30ubuntu1
SourcePackage: wu-ftpd
Title: package wu-ftpd 2.6.2-30ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Bruce Edge (bruce-edge)]

This is present in 9.04 as well:

# pstree -Alap 5905
dpkg,5905 --force-confnew --status-fd 29 --configure perl perl-modules binutils debsums libdevkit-gobject0 libudev0 devicekit dialog gawk dpkg-awk make dpkg-dev e2tools ethtool ftplib3 gcc-4.3 gcc hal-info libsmbios2libhal
  `-frontend,9880 -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/wu-ftpd.postinst configure
      `-(wu-ftpd.postins,9887)

 9880 pts/1 S<+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/wu-ftpd.postinst configure
 9887 pts/1 Z<+ 0:00 [wu-ftpd.postins] <defunct>

[Bruce Edge (bruce-edge)]

This debian bug describes exactly what I'm seeing.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425397

I've been hitting this for over 4 years now whenever I install wu-ftpd.