Actually, this rings a bell and I know what the problem is. cups-
bsd.prerm executes update-inetd, which uses debconf. Normally, you can
use debconf in child processes without a problem. However, because of
some odd bits in the way the debconf shell and Perl bindings work
together, if cups-bsd.prerm is being run from within something that uses
debconf (debconf-apt-progress, in this case), IIRC the only way update-
inetd is going to work properly is if cups-bsd.prerm sources the debconf
confmodule; otherwise it will send debconf commands to the wrong place.
I know this is a bit weird since cups-bsd.prerm doesn't itself use
debconf directly.
In short, I think this will go away if you ensure that cups-bsd.prerm
does '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule' at the very top, immediately
below 'set -e'. You'll need to test that, though.
** Package changed: debconf (Ubuntu) => cups (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Title:
Upgrade to cups-bsd_1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 hangs during preseeded install
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