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[Benji York <benji.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Julian Edwards
<julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, for some reason that I can't quite fathom, but it's something to do with
> zcml, lp.shipit is getting imported, which in turn seems to import the whole
> world.
>
> The whole world includes lp.testing, which in turn imports launchpadlib and
> hence the keyring.  Which installs a SIGCHLD handler.
>
> Ummm, why is lp.shitpit doing that?

It's not lp.shipit's fault, it's a stupidity in the keyring package.  It
(keyring) does work at import time (an almost universal no-no) by
initializing it's selected back-end (in your case KWallet).  I have a
launchpadlib branch that I'll be landing soonish (and then a release,
and then a patch to LP proper to use the new launchpadlib) which will
delay the import of keyring until needed.  After that I'll see if
there's anything I can do about keyring doing the import-time work and
why it's handling SIGCHLD.

I /think/ only people with KDE installed are affected.  So I'm inclined
to suggest patching your local LP to use the pre-keyring version of
launchpadlib (1.7.0).  If that's not enough, we can roll back to the
pre-keyring version of launchpadlib.

I expect to have this fixed within the next 9 hours.
-- 
Benji York