[Aptitude-devel] Bug#776101: aptitude: hangs forever on 'setting up console-setup (1.116)'

[Gordon Morehouse]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

running 'aptitude upgrade' followed by 'aptitude update' on a Debian
testing system hangs after similar output from aptitude:

Installing new version of config file /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-3.inc ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-4.inc ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-7.inc ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-9.inc ...
Setting up console-setup (1.116) ...

'top' shows aptitude taking about 3-4% CPU but it is stuck.  Ctrl-C is not
effective.  Kill with SIGTERM does stop the process while breaking terminal
echo.

It leaves the aptitude /var lockfile dirty.

Running 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' has a couple errors about
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat being locked as well.

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov  8 2014 13:34:39
Compiler: g++ 4.9.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff45bfc000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fa67abcb000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fa67a995000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fa67a76a000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fa67a564000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fa67a24e000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fa679f85000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007fa679d6d000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fa67995c000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa67973e000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fa679433000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa679132000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa678f1b000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa678b72000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fa67896f000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa67876a000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa67854f000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fa67833f000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fa67811b000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fa677f13000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fa677d0d000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa67b595000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.6
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-13
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-19
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-19
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1.1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.29

-- no debconf information