Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe

[Jim Meyering]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> I have installed Fedora 8 on another 32bit x86 system, and the problem
> appears there too.
>
> (I moved /etc/csh* out of the way, used a freshly created account that
> uses /bin/tcsh. I also deleted all the ~/.* files)
>
> I straced the mingetty process corresponding to VT 1, and logged on
> there.
> The only mention of SIGPIPE is this:
>
> 4549  rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
>
> 4549 is the mingetty process.

That may be the root of your problem.
Some process is ignoring SIGPIPE.

Odd.. I don't see any trace of SIGPIPE in the mingetty sources.
I looked at the sources for rawhide's mingetty-1.07-6.
Are you sure 4549 is the PID of a process running mingetty?
What version of mingetty are you using?