fai-setup hangs, can't even do crtl-C (version 2.3.1 under woody)

[Walter Tautz]

I see that the latest version is 2.3.2 on the development site
for fai. Woody only contains 2.3.1 at the moment. perhaps that
is the source of my problem.

# df -k /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              1921156   1588608    234956  88% /



# fai-setup 
Account $LOGUSER=fai already exists.
Make sure, that all install clients can
log into this account without a password.
/home/fai/.rhosts created.
User account fai set up.
Creating FAI nfsroot can take a long time and will
need more than 150MB disk space in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot.
/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot already exists. Removing /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
dpkg: base-passwd: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request:
 base-passwd depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4); however:
  Package libc6 is not installed.
dpkg: base-files: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request:
 base-files depends on awk; however:
  Package awk is not installed.
dpkg: regarding .../archives/dpkg_1.9.20_i386.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
 dpkg pre-depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../archives/dpkg_1.9.20_i386.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
 dpkg pre-depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1)
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../archives/dpkg_1.9.20_i386.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
 dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810)
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: dpkg: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request:
 dpkg depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4); however:
  Package libc6 is not installed.
 dpkg depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1); however:
  Package libncurses5 is not installed.
 dpkg depends on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810); however:
  Package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 is not installed.
Package `sysvinit' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg: debconf: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request:
 debconf depends on fileutils (>= 4.0-5); however:
  Package fileutils is not installed.
dpkg: regarding .../bash_2.05a-11_i386.deb containing bash, pre-dependency problem:
 bash pre-depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1)
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../archives/dpkg_1.9.20_i386.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
 dpkg pre-depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1)
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../archives/dpkg_1.9.20_i386.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
 dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810)
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../login_20000902-12_i386.deb containing login, pre-dependency problem:
 login pre-depends on libpam0g (>= 0.72-1)
  libpam0g is unpacked, but has never been configured.
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../ncurses-bin_5.2.20020112a-7_i386.deb containing ncurses-bin, pre-dependency problem:
 ncurses-bin pre-depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1)
  libncurses5 is unpacked, but has never been configured.
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../shellutils_2.0.11-11_i386.deb containing shellutils, pre-dependency problem:
 shellutils pre-depends on login | hurd
  login is unpacked, but has never been configured.
  hurd is not installed.
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.11n-4_i386.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
 util-linux pre-depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1)
  libncurses5 is unpacked, but has never been configured.
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.11n-4_i386.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
 util-linux pre-depends on slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0)
  slang1 is unpacked, but has never been configured.
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
Looking for keymap to install:
NONE
Looking for keymap to install:
NONE
RNo default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/macedonian/standard/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/standard/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/ukrainian/standard/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/standard/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/russian/standard/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/variant - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/turkish/standard/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/fggiod/layout - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/fggiod/turkish/standard/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/dvorak/layout - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/apple_usb/keymap - picking one
No default for console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/variant - picking one

If you have information about what choice should be the default for