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List: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#1111: signal bug with session manager
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: 1999-03-31 12:32:36
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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.
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