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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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756238
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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