[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#409845: console-setup: Package configuration hangs and doesn't reach to an end.

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.13
Severity: important

I notice my console fonts were not displaying graphics properly, so I
reach to console-setup package. I installed it, select the below
configuration and the the package installed as usual, but it stopped at
configuring....

After waiting for about 5 minutes I did a pstree and found that setupcon
was calling echo like this:
/bin/echo -n -e \033%G

This corresponds to line 144 in setupcon script.

I then killed the echo process and I had a warning but the package did
its job.

I then restart the configuration using dpkg-reconfigure. Same problem.

This is the pstree I got:
console-setup.postinst configure 1.13
invoke-rc.d console-setup start
setupcon
/bin/echo -n -e \033%G

I now kill the last process (echo). The warning is: /bin/setupcon : line
140: 14154 Terminated /bin/echo -n -e '\033%G' >$console done.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (701, 'testing'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18rs
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.20-5.1   Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.11     Debian configuration management sy
ii  xkb-data                      0.9-4      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  kbd                           1.12-17    Linux console font and keytable ut

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: Spain
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
  console-setup/fontsize: 16
  console-setup/layoutcode: es
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: Terminus
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
  console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
  console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
* console-setup/layout: Spain
  console-setup/variantcode:
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
* console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16