Comment 3 for bug 185380

Here's two straces of "apt-get install cryptsetup". One called with parameter "-f", one without.

The console output was:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
cryptsetup is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up cryptsetup (2:1.0.5-2ubuntu2.1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
dpkg: error processing cryptsetup (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt) <--- killed manually
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cryptsetup
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I'm not used to strace, but to me it looks like line 1349 in the non-fork trace marks the beginning of the endless loop.