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system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #153610
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 153610

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 153610] Re: applet.py crashed with IOError in module>()

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:10:32PM -0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> No, stderr output should be sent to .xsession-errors as with other
> applications in the session.

In our default session in Ubuntu, stdout and stderr are a pipe to gdm, which
buffers the data over to .xsession-errors. In this case, gdm had likely
closed the pipe as the session was over, but this applet was still running
and tried to write to it.

Definitely a case of an error condition which could be handled more
gracefully, rather than a functional bug.

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 - mdz