Am 14.11.2014 um 10:57 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst:
> On Thu, November 13, 2014 22:49, Thomas Liske wrote:
>> tag 767370 upstream,fixed-upstream
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> Hi Thijs,
>>
>> needrestart did not find any kernel images which triggers this special
>> bug. There was a divison by zero triggered by calculating the
>> progressbar length.
>>
>> needrestart did not die since the linux specific stuff was running in an
>> eval block. needrestart was not started in verbose mode so it does not
>> report the error message (divsion by zero) of the eval call.
>>
>> While dieing in the eval block the stdout/stdin fd's were left screwed
>> up... resulting in the debconf commands on the tty.
>>
>> In verbose mode the bug was not triggered since verbose mode disables
>> the progressbar stuff.
> 
> Thanks. Good that it was found. This is a Xen domU which indeed does not
> have any linux-* packages installed since it runs the host kernel.
> 
> Can we have a targeted fix for this in unstable that fits the jessie
> unfreeze policy?

Targeted! But first I would like to see 1.2-4 in testing, after it has
been aged.


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