[Debconf-devel] Bug#439763: More info on the hanging debconf problem

[Matthew Palmer]

OK, so it's not actually Puppet installs that do it for me... it's
openssh-server (which I was installing alongside it).  Nothing like an
assumption to ruin your day...

At any rate, the symptoms are still substantively the same -- preseeded
install, a hang at "Running preseed", the error
"/usr/share/debconf/confmodule: line 42: 3: Bad file descriptor", and a
zombied dpkg-preconfigure.

Happily, though, it would appear that pkgsel/include (which I've only just
found) works around the problem nicely, and as such it could be argued that
this bug, as currently manifest, isn't all that important.  Whether it
causes (or has the potential to cause) hassle in other circumstances I
couldn't say, though.

- Matt