Rod Butcher wrote:
> 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
Sorry, I left out the details of the source code at theme-thumbnail.c:489 :-
write (pipe_to_factory_fd[1], meta_theme_info->gtk_theme_name, strlen 
(meta_theme_info->gtk_theme_name) + 1);
> 
>>
> 

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://distributedcomputing.info - find out how to make your pc work for 
the community
_______________________________________________
Gnome-bugsquad mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad

Reply via email to