Comment 47 for bug 419501

OK, I'm not having any problems with "ico -threads 10" with the PPA.

BUT: Is there any reason to believe that the problems with ico are the same as this bug? As far as I can tell, the problem here is that Python programs using X which execute a fork reliably throw a specific assertion error. (I'm guessing about the details of apport-kde, but this seems to be the pattern with Gasp and my test case. Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Meanwhile, one drive-by commenter mentioned that "ico -threads 10" will occasionally produce this error. The fact that the PPA has fixed "ico" and not the Python problems suggests to me that these are not the same bug. It may be that the "unrelated bug in Lucid with python, glib and forking" is very much relevant here (though this bug also occurs in Karmic).