I looked into kdesudo and I think the problem is that it blocks the
"SIGCHLD" handler in line 159 of kdesudo.cpp. This prevents synaptic to
get the signals it needs. If I remove that line it works.
I strongly suspect that this is a problem with kdesudo, gksu does not
block SIGCHLD.
** Changed in: gnome-app-install
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: kdesudo (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: synaptic => kdesudo
Importance: Undecided => High
Assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) => (unassigned)
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
** Changed in: kdesudo (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Medium
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[kde4] synaptic does get when dpkg terminates when run with kdesudo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156041
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