[Bug 413415] Re: console-setup hangs under chroot debootstrap with a console login on ttyX

[Steffen Hemer]

Just ran across this bug because of a console-setup upgrade on a chroot-ed Xenial (installed via debootstrap, exported via nfs for PXE boot, upgrades always installed via chroot-ing on server). Whole upgrade process hangs at "Preconfiguring packages ...". 
Set "console-setup console-setup-linux keyboard-configuration" on hold for now.

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Title:
  console-setup hangs under chroot debootstrap with a console login on
  ttyX

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: console-setup

  When debootstraping a Ubuntu chroot using debootstrap the console-
  setup postconfigure invokes the console-setup init-script.

  When the console-setup initscript is invoked while there is a console
  login on one of the system ttys, it hangs forever trying to write to
  that tty.

  When there is no console login, the behaviour is as expected.  I do
  not know if this bug exists in Debian, however, because console-setup
  is not part of the base system there.

  This is a critical issue because it makes debootstrap behave
  incorrectly on servers with people logged in on the console...

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