I never see dpkg doing this by himself that's why I report its again apt. After having kill a script because I can't press enter, the post-inst supprocess was killed [it was xbase.postinst] and dpkg continued with xfs (this is the ok part). My real problem is that I was returned to my prompt at this moment with dpkg running with init as parent. May be I pressed ^C a second time and that's what kill apt-get but not dpkg, but it was certainly a bad behaviour.
----- This certainly is confusing, you killed a sub process of dpkg which cause apt-get to be killed? It sounds like screen is mucking with your signals :< When you do a ^C it is supposed to propogate to the children I belive. Alternatively what might be happening is that for some reason dpkg blocks the sigterm when running a script so what happens is that the script and apt-get are killed but dpkg lives on.. I could block the term signal while dpkg is running? Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

