Aptdaemon

Merge lp://staging/~cjwatson/aptdaemon/debconf-flush into lp://staging/aptdaemon

debconf-flush
Merge into main

Proposed by Colin Watson on 2013-04-02

Status:

Merged

Approved by:

Michael Vogt on 2013-04-02

Approved revision:

904

Merged at revision:

904

Proposed branch:

lp://staging/~cjwatson/aptdaemon/debconf-flush

Merge into:

lp://staging/aptdaemon

Diff against target:

11 lines (+1/-0)

1 file modified

aptdaemon/debconf.py (+1/-0)

To merge this branch:

bzr merge lp://staging/~cjwatson/aptdaemon/debconf-flush

Related bugs:

Bug #1163142: Hangs when "preconfiguring packages" at the installation of a language	High	Fix Released
Bug #1163163: aptdaemon does not give a terminal/gtk debconf prompt	High	Fix Released

Link a bug report

Reviewer	Review Type	Date Requested	Status
Michael Vogt (community)		2013-04-02	Approve on 2013-04-02
Review via email: mp+156545@code.staging.launchpad.net

Commit message

Flush debconf-communicate stdin after writing to it.

Description of the change

When using a socket to communicate with debconf, aptdaemon's debconf proxy forwards debconf commands by writing them to debconf-communicate's stdin, but doesn't flush stdio buffers so the data can end up sitting there forever and blocking the entire transaction. See bug 1163142 and bug 1163163 for examples. Flush debconf-communicate stdin after writing to it to avoid this problem.