kde-guidance: the initscript hangs the whole system

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Original report follows:

From: Alexander Schier <email address hidden>
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: kde-guidance: the initscript hangs the whole system
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:43:36 +0200
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14

Package: kde-guidance
Version: 0.6.7svn20061006-0ubuntu1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

The /usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance/displayprobe-hwconfig.py
script hangs the whole system, and not even magic sysrq key works. The
problem occurs after a upgrade of kde-guidance, when the postinst script
runs.

workaround: edit /etc/init.d/kde-guidance, and remove the
displayprobe-hwconfig.py command.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers edgy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'edgy-updates'), (500, 'edgy-security'), (500, 'edgy-backports'), (500, 'edgy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-10-generic
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kde-guidance depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.4-0ubuntu18 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.4-1ubuntu10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13ubuntu4 GCC support library
ii libpythonize0 0.4.0-3 Python packages to support KDE app
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-3ubuntu2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13ubuntu4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-0ubuntu3 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.1-1ubuntu1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.1-0ubuntu1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-0ubuntu1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-0ubuntu1 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii pykdeextensions 0.4.0-3 Python packages to support KDE app
ii python 2.4.3-11ubuntu3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-dbus 0.71-2ubuntu1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-kde3 3.15.2+20060422-2ubuntu2 KDE3 bindings for Python
ii python-support 0.5.3ubuntu1 automated rebuilding support for p
ii python2.4 2.4.3-8ubuntu2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu16 System-V-like runlevel change mech

kde-guidance recommends no packages.

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