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[09:19] <cjwatson> mark: that's not especially helpful; that's simply the debconf shell around the entire postinst script
[09:20] <cjwatson> mark: an 'strace -f' (ideally started on some appropriate parent process *before* man-db is configured) would be more helpful really
[09:20] <cjwatson> mark: can you find out if there are any child processes of /usr/share/debconf/frontend running?
[09:33] <mark> ok
[09:34] <mark> I can't access it myself during the install, but I will ask next time it happens
[09:34] <mark> the on site guy can log in and look...
[09:34] <cjwatson> if it doesn't happen every time, it's awkward ...
[09:34] <cjwatson> my only guess is that some file descriptors are racily not being closed
[09:36] <mark> it happens, on some servers, about half the time
[09:36] <mark> the servers in our korean servers suffer from it, and also the upload squid cluster in florida
[09:36] <mark> no others so far ;)
[09:41] <mark> once or twice, when I had the on site guy kill the perl process he thought was hanging, I then got the "suid bit" question