gdebi-gtk fails to install packages

Bug #438785 reported by JK
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
vte (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdebi

When I try to install a .deb package (tried opera10 and others) by double-clicking it, gdebi-gtk fails with the following error:

dpkg: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor

No other application is running that accesses the dpkg database. Installing the packes from the CLI using 'dkpg -i' works normally!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 29 17:41:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdebi 0.5.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
SourcePackage: gdebi
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

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JK (m0d) wrote :
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

This is actually a vte problem and a fix pending already.

affects: gdebi (Ubuntu) → vte (Ubuntu)
Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Here is the changelog:

vte (1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/10_fix_pyenv.patch:
    - fix environment passing in python to fork_command(), see
      https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587894
    - This fixes gdebi-gtk and it can install packages again
      (LP: #438266)

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