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091112 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 12 November 2009 00:40:16 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> Philip Webb writes: |
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>>> There is a problem somewhere & it mb a small fix for my machine |
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>>> & it wb nice to track it down if others are not experiencing it. |
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>> Try 'strace xterm' in a terminal with long scrollback history, ... |
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Or better, use the '-o outputfile' option. |
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>> ... press Enter a couple of times when it hangs |
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>> and analyze the output at these positions later. |
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> I did that earlier just for fun. The output is huge :-) |
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> 2400 lines when I did it with the same result as yours. |
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> I see here that while xterm is starting, the output stutters quite a lot |
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> and each time there is a "resource unavailable" message just before. |
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> It's trying to read fd3 which turns out to be the Unix socket in /tmp . |
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Yes, there are 3 lock file/dirs there : |
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root:527 tmp> ls -la |
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total 5 |
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drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 200 2009-11-17 16:41 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 560 2009-07-04 05:53 .. |
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drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 88 2009-11-17 12:50 .ICE-unix |
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drwx------ 3 purslow purslow 192 2009-11-17 16:30 kde-purslow |
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drwx------ 2 purslow purslow 240 2009-11-17 16:32 ksocket-purslow |
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-r--r--r-- 1 root purslow 11 2009-11-17 12:47 .X0-lock |
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drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 72 2009-11-17 12:47 .X11-unix |
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Are you using Nvidia ? -- someone else mentioned that as a possible cause. |
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Otherwise, does anyone have further suggestions ? |
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