gdebi-gtk fails with ''dpkg: unable to read filedescriptor flags...."

I too have experienced this problem. It looks like bug 393381 is coming back.

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gdebi 0.6.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17.23-generic 2.6.35.2
Tags: maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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have the same bug...

output in german:

dpkg: Kann Dateideskriptorflags für >><Dateideskriptor für Paketstatus und Fortschritt><< nicht lesen: Bad file descriptor

Fixed here with update to 0.6.2ubuntu1

Sorry - was testing on some re-installs - it appeared to work.
What was actually happening was the failure wasn't being displayed, gdebi was closing without details being displayed (using the same setting in synaptic
Some it still won't install any packages - the same error is still seen. (have to uncheck the ;automatically close ..." in synaptic to see the error

The problem persists for me in GDebi 0.6.2ubuntu1 on Maverick

This problem also still exists for me in gdebi 0.6.2.ubuntu1 on Maverick (xubuntu). In addition, you cannot close the gdebi-gtk window once the error occurs.

This broke because 91_keep_fds got dropped. While the C interface now exports enough functionatlity now to replace it (vte_terminal_new, vte_terminal_pty_new, vte_pty_child_setup, vte_terminal_set_pty) its not possible yet to do it with python-vte. The whole vte stuff is not yet exported afaiks. Please add 91_keep_fds back.

Robert can you add the change back for this cycle?

This bug was fixed in the package vte - 1:0.25.91-0ubuntu4

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vte (1:0.25.91-0ubuntu4) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/91_keep_fds.patch:
    - Update and return patch that hadn't been applied upstream (LP: #620297)
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:57:18 +1000

I've rebuilt the patch and tested using gdebi. It seems to be working, please review the patch if you understand it well because the upstream code changed quite significantly.