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gdebi package

  1. Bug #1946499
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1946499

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote : Re: installation of deb-packages with gdebi-gtk shows "dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor" in gdebi terminal, package is not installed

On 2021-10-14 12:31, Norbert wrote:
> Tried to compile package from debian bookworm

That was one of the first things I tried, but IIRC I still got the "unable to read filedescriptor flags" error. Which is a bit weird, considering that it works in a Debian environment.

> Then when `gdebi-gtk file.deb` is executed, then terminal shows
> the following
>
> ```
> (gdebi-gtk:14343): VTE-WARNING **: 13:31:00.005: (../src/vtepty.cc:669):bool _vte_pty_spawn_sync(VtePty*, const char*, const char* const*, const char* const*, GSpawnFlags, GSpawnChildSetupFunc, gpointer, GDestroyNotify, GPid*, int, GCancellable*, GError**): runtime check failed: ((spawn_flags & forbidden_spawn_flags()) == 0)
> ```
>
> Could it be an issue?

Also that looks familiar.