1. Summarise the issue (what were doing, what went wrong?)
I was trying to push between one local repo with records, to another
repo with no records (empty repo). The error message I get is the following:
darcs: fd:9: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)

2. What behaviour were you expecting instead?
I was expecting for darcs to prompt me for each record/changeset, and to
ask me if I wanted it pushed or not, and it does, but then at the end it
fails and nothing is pushed.

3. What darcs version are you using? (Try: darcs --exact-version)
2.8.4

4. What operating system are you running?
Mac OS X 10.8

I have nearly the same:
$darcs push 

Pushing to "http://hub.darcs.net/bogdartysh/petitionsgrails"...
XXX
Exception thrown by an atexit registered action:
SignalException 13
darcs: fd:11: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
remote repo is http://hub.darcs.net/
method of sending - http

I could not reproduce this with local repositories, so this seems to
happen only with remote repos. Here is my test:

mkdir -p R S
cd S; darcs init
cd ../R; darcs init
echo text > f
darcs record -lam 'added f'
PATH='' /home/ben/bin/darcs push ../S

It seems for local repos we do not call the external darcs via PATH
(which is reasonable: we want the same darcs we have been called with,
not a -- possibly different -- version from the PATH).

Strange, I just tried to reproduce again with a local repo and now I do
get the error with a slightly modified test.

I have sent a patch (Patch1249) that resolves this, it is in screened
and has the right patch name ("resolved issue2333: use getExecutablePath
instead of getProgName") but the automagic did not work :-( ....oh,
wait: does that have to be "resolve ...", not "resolved ..."?

The following patch sent by Ben Franksen <benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de> updated issue issue2333 with
status=resolved;resolvedin=2.10.0 HEAD

* resolved issue2333: use getExecutablePath instead of getProgName 
Ignore-this: 9c5853580509aa7a879f22462a8bafaf