[Debconf-devel] Bug#425397: tasksel/pkgsel causing Etch netboot install to hang indefinitely

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:28:40PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Without being able to reproduce this myself, I can never quite be sure,
> but I think I've fixed this in debconf 1.5.14 by creating separate pipes
> for debconf communication with child processes and adding a select()
> loop to serialise everything properly.
> 
> I would very much appreciate testing once debconf 1.5.14 lands on the
> images you're using.

FWIW, I can still install successfully with debconf 1.5.14 (in Ubuntu),
so my changes are at least not completely broken. Since I could never
reproduce the problem in the first place, though, I would still like
testing from people who could!

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]