[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#524745: Bug#524745: Postinst seems to run forever on mipsel

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org> [2009-04-26 18:50]:

> We currently have another process wedged on mayer.debian.org:
> 
> ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> ....
> ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL <unfinished ...>
> Process 31649 detached
> sgran at mayer:~$ sudo ls -l /proc/31649/fd
> total 0
> lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-04-26 17:41 0 -> /dev/pts/2
> lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-04-26 17:41 1 -> /dev/pts/2
> lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-04-26 17:41 2 -> /dev/pts/2

I have no access to mayer, so I cannot help much here.  What about:

    lsof -p 31649

> I assume this will be some problem with debconf and file descriptors?

Neither octave3.0 nor the octave-forge packages use debconf.
 
-- 
Rafael