On Saturday 29 November 2008 12:22:50 am Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0000, b-vol wrote: > > there is no strace on my system. I have checked the list of binaries in > > gcc and glibc in the cblfs book and could not find an strace (that > > does not mean it s should be there). However there is an xtrace under > > glibC. This calls for xterm I have not yet installed X-windows. > > It's a debugging tool - strace system calls and signals. > > Freshmeat is pointing to a very old version, but hopefully you can > access it at > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/strace/strace-4.5.18.tar.bz > > On non-multilib, just CMMI. On multilib, configure with CC="gcc > ${BUILD64}" after ensuring BUILD64 is set (-m64 on my arches, but > YMMV). Maybe it's in cblfs. Don't forget to read the man page. > > You will often (particularly on graphical apps which spend most of > the time waiting for input) get a *lot* of output from it - the > syntax highlighting and general colour in 'view' seem to make it > a bit less impenetrable (if you are comfortable with your vim > colours). > > ĸen
I installed kbd-1.14.1 and the problem went away. Thanks for all your help -- ################################### “Common sense teaches that booksellers should not speculate in hops, or bankers in turpentine; that railways should not be promoted by maiden ladies, or canals by beneficed clergymen ....” Walter Bagehot-economist: 1826-1877
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