> Here you go. > > (Mind, this is capturing the current status of the chroot, which is fairly > unclean, because right now it happens to be building python-qt4-4.3.1.) What we're missing here is a probably important piece: If dpkg-query is running during a build, it is running in a fakeroot environment. I've straced that, see the attachment. What I find in the strace are at least several clones, which is the point where aptitude -u crashed according to the straces in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433187#102 -- Bernd Zeimetz