Scott Bronson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:04 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
>> Can somebody tell me whether SIGPIPE points to a broken Gnome build / 
>> installation, or to an actual program error ?
> 
> Yes.  Generally the former.
> 
> 
>> Does it mean processes are 
>> not communicating correctly ? I've found doco on how to bypass SIGPIPE 
>> in gdb, but not what's going wrong. Pointers to documentation gratefully 
>> received.
> 
> At the very least, why don't you post the output?  It's almost
> impossible to figure out what's going on without that.
This is all I get from GDB :-
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-theme-manager
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1226815808 (LWP 31710)]

(gnome-theme-manager:31710): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: Could not 
initialize inotify


Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
[Switching to Thread -1226815808 (LWP 31710)]
0xffffe410 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 1 (Thread -1226815808 (LWP 31710)):
#0  0xffffe410 in ?? ()
#1  0xbfece948 in ?? ()
#2  0x0000000b in ?? ()
#3  0x080bb060 in ?? ()
#4  0xb6fd0263 in __write_nocancel () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#5  0x08058cde in generate_theme_thumbnail (meta_theme_info=0x80bdc38, 
clear_cache=0)
     at theme-thumbnail.c:489
#6  0x08050b9f in update_themes_from_disk (dialog=Variable "dialog" is 
not available.
) at gnome-theme-manager.c:473
#7  0x080512e8 in main (argc=1634036803, argv=0x6f6f6c72) at 
gnome-theme-manager.c:1316

> 
> 

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