Xorg 1.19.1 SIGPIPE on application close

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Mon Feb 6 15:00:22 UTC 2017


On 06/02/17 21:46, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On 02/06/2017 03:32 PM, Antoine Martin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can reproduce this Xorg server crash fairly reliably using xpra and
>> glxspheres simply by closing the application window:
>>
>> Thread 1 "Xorg" received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
>> 0x00007ffff57ca83d in writev () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
>> 84	T_PSEUDO (SYSCALL_SYMBOL, SYSCALL_NAME, SYSCALL_NARGS)
> 
> That's not a crash.  SIGPIPE on client disconnect is expected, and is
> not fatal.
DOH!
And it turns out that this has nothing to do with the Xorg server: my
script ended up killing Xorg when IT died. Sorry for the noise.

Cheers
Antoine


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