From kde-bugs-dist  Wed Mar 31 12:32:36 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:32:36 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#1111: signal bug with session manager
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=92288383604439

Hi Navindra,

Navindra Umanee wrote:
> 
> 
> The session manager has a signal bug that interferes with the Debian
> package manager.  Typical symptoms:
> 
> [asimov] [/var/cache/apt/archives] sudo dpkg -i isapnptools_1.16-4.1.deb
> (Reading database ... 46936 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace isapnptools 1.13-3.1 (using isapnptools_1.16-4.1.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement isapnptools ...
> gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

Is this really a SIGPIPE problem ? Could be related to stdout/stdin
redirections.

> dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: error processing isapnptools_1.16-4.1.deb (--install):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  isapnptools_1.16-4.1.deb
> Exit 1
> 
> The problem can be demonstrated by the following test program.
> Running it under "kwm" and "kwm -nosession" provide an unexpected
> result in the first case and the expected result in the second case.
 
Do I assume correctly that you run the test in a terminal window that
was started by the session manager ? Which terminals did you use ? I can
reproduce the problem with xterm. konsole and kvt are fine. Using the
'-nosession' does NOT make a difference here.

Harri.