ICE IO error?

[Greg Folkert]

Well, you've obviously somehow corrupted your .ICEauthority in you
$HOMEDIR. ICE errors tend to be related to that file. Not sure what your
script may or may not be doing with this file... 

Rename ~/.ICEauthority file so it gets recreated (if needed) and see if
that fixes it. You will probably need to re-login.

If it does fix it, something was whacked, as ICE is for inter process
communication, it might be related to "XFS" if its still used by your
X-Server, as I had plenty of issues when using XFS. Most distros don't
use XFS anymore.

That file is also used by xfce4-session, gamin, chrome, "dropbox"
evolution, dconf, gbus, xfce-panel, Pulse Audio, chrome browser
extensions, xfwm, xfce-settings, gnome-terminal, various volume
controls, alsa, skype, pidgin, bash... among many, many others.

Could be a number of issues that cause problems with your in your file.
Also you might checkout /tmp/.ICE-unix for any files... just after your
issue occurs.

Also libICE.so*, as provided by package libice* (on my Debian system
libice-dev and libice6... could be different on yours) might be the
culprit as its not handling things properly... but its highly doubtful.



On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 09:14 +0100, Marton Balazs wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry if it's not an Xfce problem, I actually don't even have an idea
> where to start. I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, and have a script that I
> start from a terminal, which opens various things (Firefox, Skype,
> Pidgin), does various rsync synchronizations, then opens alpine in a
> separate terminal, and finally opens a file in Vim in yet another
> separate terminal. Now this last thing works maybe 19 cases out of 20,
> but at random times the terminal is opened with, instead of Vim, this
> single line in it:
> 
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2839, errno = 4
> 
> (pid of course changes from time to time). Trying to search for this pid
> gives no running processes. The relevant piece of the script is
> 
> 
> sleep 1
> 
> echo "kell.org"
> #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3512055/avoid-gnome-terminal-close-after-script-execution
> gnome-terminal -e "bash -c 'vim ~/symlink/mindenfele/kell.org; exec bash'"
> 
> sleep 1
> df -h
> exit
> 
> (Sorry guys, only using gnome-terminal because its "Set character
> encoding" menu, which I couldn't find a replacement for in
> xfce4-terminal.) The file kell.org is a symlink to a txt file, and I
> have the Vim plugin vim-orgmode for it. Opening this file in Vim
> directly has never given me any error.
> 
> Search for this bug gave me problems with Gvim and/or the package
> gtk-qt-engine-kde4, but this is Vim, not Gvim and gtk-qt-engine-kde4 is
> not installed.
> 
> The issue is present on two completely different machines (ASRock Intel®
> Core™ i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz × 4 and Eeepc 901 Intel Atom).
> 
> Do you have any idea what this could be?
> 
> Thanks,
> Marton
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