[Bug 1756238] Re: gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags

[Egmont Koblinger]

I can reproduce the bug, and I also get the same (faulty) result with
vanilla vte-0.48 compiled by me (that is, not the Ubuntu package,
contrary to comment 7).

Jeremy, could you please test if bringing back 91_keep_fds.patch solves
the issue? The error message sounds suspiciously related to what this
patch was doing.

vte2.91 (0.51.90-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
  [...]
  * Dropped change, apparently hasn't been needed for years:
    - Add 91_keep_fds.patch:
      + Keep file descriptors open on vte_fork_pty()

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Title:
  gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags

Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When using gdebi-gtk to install a .deb the install fails with the
  message:-

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

  This only occurs via the gdebi-gtk GUI front end, packages install perfectly if done via the CLI with:
  sudo gdebi /path/to/packagename.deb

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