Python app. Eroaster and "output = pipe[0].readlines()" trouble

[Kevin]

I'm having a new trouble with a python application called Eroaster.
The error message I get is:

      File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__
	ret = apply(self.func, a)
      File "/usr/lib/eroaster/main.py", line 1468, in DetectRecorder
	self.DetectSCSIDevice(deviceRecorder)
      File "/usr/lib/eroaster/main.py", line 1477, in DetectSCSIDevice
	output = pipe[0].readlines()
    IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call

The code around line 1477 in main.py is:

    # Detect SCSI-devices
    def DetectSCSIDevice(self, device):
        pipe = popen2.popen2("cdrecord -scanbus 2>&1")
        output = pipe[0].readlines()
        devicelist = []

If I execute "cdrecord -scanbus" I get the appropriate output for
my system:

    Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
    Linux sg driver version: 3.1.19
    Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
    scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) *
        0,1,0     1) 'IBM-PSG ' 'DPSS-318350N  M ' 'S9AA' Disk
        0,2,0     2) 'QUANTUM ' 'ATLAS_V__9_WLS  ' '0230' Disk
        0,3,0     3) 'HP      ' 'CD-Writer+ 9200 ' '1.0e' Removable CD-ROM
        0,4,0     4) 'NEC     ' 'CD-ROM DRIVE:222' '3.1k' Removable CD-ROM
        0,5,0     5) 'HP      ' 'HP35470A        ' 'T503' Removable Tape
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7) *

This exact application used to run just fine a month or two ago.
Since then I've updated my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.7-12.3mdk on
my Mandrake 8.0 system.  I'm sure I've made a few more updates,
like all of Mandrake's security patches.


Does anyone know what's going wrong here?  Does anyone have any
debugging suggestions?  I'm an experienced programmer/debugger
but I'm totally new to python.

Thanks...


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