Installation hangs at "Preconfiguring packages .. Fetched..."

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:48:50 +0100 (MET), mixtlis at gmx.de said:

    > The installation starts und runs with no errors up to the point where  FAI
    > starts my own script under the scripts directory. In this script a 'apt-get
    > update' is executed and a following 'apt-get install \<packagename\>'
    > retrieves the package but then stops with  "Preconfiguring packages ..
    > Fetched 5515kB in 3s (1713kB/s)"
Try to detect which package is going to be preconfigured. Use ps aux and
this command:

COLUMNS=300 pstree -l

Do you use the "yes ''|apt-get install"-pipe or without a pipe but
redirecting stdin from </dev/null? Maybe this may help.


-- 
regards Thomas