I have had the same bug. I did some troubleshooting and it only occurs
when I am doing heavy disk activity (potentially on another volume).
Whenever this occurs, if I try to issue a "sync" it also hangs for a
very long time.

Maybe dpkg tries to sync the discs?

In any case, if I wait until the disk activity ends, and the system is
idle, then I issue a sync, I have to wait a long time (sometimes 10
minutes) for the sync to complete. Once it's done, the dpkg gets unstuck
and continues.

Of course, on a heavily-loaded system it's not an option to wait until
the sync completes, so this bug needs to be fixed. It's very annoying.

BTW I tried the 2.6.37rc1 from kernel.org, and I had the same problem.

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