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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 14 avril 2009 à 14:23 +0200, Vincent Danjean a écrit :
>   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

I have no idea why this would happen. It means that the popen function
fails to create a valid file descriptor.

I’m interested to know if you can reproduce this behavior in a
standalone python shell.

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