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I would like to draw your attention to a bug which is present in the default installation of (at least) FC 12 to 14 when using gnome as DE and alpine as email client. Description of problem: The mailer program "alpine" is configured by default to delegate opening of HTTP-references to Firefox (or the gnome default browser) and xdg-open for attachments (HTTP files, but also images, PDF, ...). After a standard installation alpine saves a copy of the file to be displayed as /tmp/img-*, but when it comes to the *final*) delegate application (xdg-open delegates to gnome-open, which delegates *finally* to eog, acroread etc.), the tempfile has already disappeared. An file-missing error is reported by the application. Apparently "alpine" waits for the delegate (It sees only xdg-open!) to stop/SIGCHLD, then removes the tempfile before the final delegates comes to open it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): It is more than a single version, but the defaults of FC 12 - FC 14 (at least) show this behaviour. More details (May 2009): http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2009-March/069261.html It actually mentions FC 10 showing this problem. (I did not check this version.) Workaround (April 2011): http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-April/396172.html Expected results: Establish correct (SIGCHLD / wait?) communication between the delegates (xdg-open, gnome-open) and their callers. Additional info: gnome-open is in libgnome-2.16.0-6.el5 xdg-open is in xdg-utils I cannot identify if only one of them needs to be corrected, but I cannot indicate both components in this bug report form.
Variant of existing bug #653249 (mutt) . See also upstream, http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32016
Please note that this is still valid for FC17!!!
And still exists in F19
See bug #653249 for some workarounds