Thanks for your report.
I can reproduce it but only on the first installation of the package. The
running processes at the time of the hang were:
root 13761 0.0 1.3 9832 6784 pts/5Ss+ 11:14 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg
--status-fd 30 --configure cernlib-base libgfortran3 libkernlib1-gfortr
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