[SRU] Bug: AttributeError: 'error' object has no attribute 'errno'

[Impact]

pexpect-based applications which can legitimately receive signals interrupting system calls, will traceback in the pexpect library.

[Test Case]

See the attached files test.py and sleep.py. Put them in the same directory and chmod +x test.py. Then run test.py. In the unpatched Trusty package, you'll see the traceback in pexpect/__init__.py. In the patched version of the package, no bogus AttributeError traceback escapes to the top level.

[Regression Potential]

None anticipated.

Hello Barry, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pexpect into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pexpect/3.1-1ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Fixed in Trusty with python-pexpect 3.1-1ubuntu0.1

There was no traceback when I ran text.py with the proposed package installed.

This bug was fixed in the package pexpect - 3.1-1ubuntu0.1

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pexpect (3.1-1ubuntu0.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * d/patches/pr38.patch: Backport from upstream 3.2 the patch to fix
    an AttributeError on select.error handling. (LP: #1317660)
 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Thu, 08 May 2014 17:07:35 -0400

The verification of the Stable Release Update for pexpect has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.