Bug#524044: gconf2: /usr/sbin/gconf-schemas fails when no gconfd-2 is running: break package instalation

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.24.0-7
Severity: important

  Hi,

  I've been upgrading a remote server with ssh. The remote server was not
running any gconfd-2 process. 
  Several packages fail to configure. For example, libgksu2-0:

Paramétrage de libgksu2-0 (2.0.9-1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/gconf-schemas", line 82, in <module>
    pids=os.popen('pidof gconfd-2').readlines()[0].split()
OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
dpkg : erreur de traitement de libgksu2-0 (--configure) :
 le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

  I was thinking this was related to ubuntu bugs 33421 but I just see that the
ubuntu pach is already applied in the Debian package. So I do not know.

  Regards,
    Vincent


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                    1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2-common               2.24.0-7     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                       2.9-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.24.0-7     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.1-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libxml2                     2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  psmisc                      22.6-1       Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  python                      2.5.4-2      An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gconf2 recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.14.7-5   The GTK+ graphical user interface 

Versions of packages gconf2 suggests:
pn  gconf-defaults-service        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information