+When running on a machine with gtk-qt-engine installed, pgAdmin III will crash with a +segmentation fault. A console will print "QPixmap: Invalid pixmap parameters". +
+This is caused by a broken gtk-qt-engine; not only pgAdmin III suffers from this. + +To fix, remove the broken gtk-qt-engine or install a fixed version if available. +I'm connecting to the database server via a firewall. After some minutes of inactivity, the connection to the database is dropped. Some admins report that bogus backend processes remain that are never terminated.
-Unfortunately some network administrators extend functions meant for external web server access to cover +Unfortunately some network administrators or default firewall settings extend functions +meant for external web server access to cover internal database traffic too. After some minutes of inactivity, the TCP/IP connection is interrupted without notice to both sides of the connection. As a result, the backend doesn't know that there's no connection to the client (in this case: pgAdmin III, but any