hum, I'm still trying to understand how that's a bug with the text editor (gedit, which is the component you reported the bug on) ... where is that message printed? do you run gedit from a command line, shutdown and see that message printed in the text editor?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007807 Title: could not write bytes: Broken pipe Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: With grub2 quiet splash commented out, I get the message "could not write bytes: Broken pipe" during shutdown. It is reproducible, but not every shutdown. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gedit 2.30.3-0ubuntu0.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-41.89-generic 2.6.32.59+drm33.24 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-41-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Jun 2 08:31:31 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gedit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1007807/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp