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python-imaging package

  1. Bug #1028396
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1028396

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Łukasz Langa (lukasz-langa) wrote :

I found that this is caused not by PIL but by libjpeg-turbo: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libjpeg-turbo/+bug/1020872
This happens if your Python executable is setcapp'ed or otherwise creates /proc/self/* files with owner UID=0.

See my bug hunt here: http://lukasz.langa.pl/5/error-opening-file-for-reading-permission-denied/

Summing up, this should be declared a duplicate of 1020872. If you're affected, vote on that other bug instead.