[GNUnet-SVN] r18795 - gnunet-update/gnunet_update

[gnunet]

Author: harsha
Date: 2011-12-24 14:49:02 +0100 (Sat, 24 Dec 2011)
New Revision: 18795

Modified:
   gnunet-update/gnunet_update/util.py
Log:
-fixed crash due to /sbin/ldconfig not being in path

Modified: gnunet-update/gnunet_update/util.py
===================================================================
--- gnunet-update/gnunet_update/util.py 2011-12-23 20:13:25 UTC (rev 18794)
+++ gnunet-update/gnunet_update/util.py 2011-12-24 13:49:02 UTC (rev 18795)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # This file is part of GNUnet.
-# (C) 2001--2011 Christian Grothoff (and other contributing authors)
+# (C) 2011 Christian Grothoff (and other contributing authors)
 #
 # GNUnet is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
@@ -199,7 +199,13 @@
     return: List of dependency objects existing on the system
     """
     if _test_input is None: # This block is not tested in unit test cases
-        proc = subprocess.Popen(["ldconfig", "-p"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        try:
+            proc = subprocess.Popen(["/sbin/ldconfig", "-p"],
+                                    stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        except OSError as (errno, errstr):
+            print "Error while running /sbin/ldconfig: " + errstr
+            print "/sbin/ldconfig should be executable by the user running 
install"
+            exit (-1)
         (ldconfig_output, ldconfig_err) = proc.communicate()
         proc.stdout.close()
         parsed_dep_list = parse_ldconfig_output(ldconfig_output)