I think it makes more sense to use bug 1946499 to track the issue happening in Ubuntu 21.10. The patches in this bug landed two years ago, so it would be confusing to reopen it.
** No longer affects: gdebi (Ubuntu) ** Tags removed: impish -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte2.91 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756238 Title: gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in vte2.91 source package in Bionic: Fix Released 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte2.91/+bug/1756238/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
