On 24 Apr 2009, at 02:55, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Apr 23, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> Matthew Parry wrote: >>> i have been having some trouble with xterm hanging recently. i'm >>> on a >>> MBP 10.4.11 with latest fink. >>> >>> it only happens after a start up. i.e. not if i logout and then >>> login >>> again. >>> >>> the first xterm hangs after showing: >>> >>> Last login: Thu Apr 23 13:55:32 on console >>> Welcome to Darwin! >>> >>> a second xterm fires up ok and ps shows: >>> >>> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND >>> 238 p1 S 0:00.09 -tcsh >>> 250 p1 S+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -e /sw/bin/start-session-bus.sh >>> 251 p1 S+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -e /sw/bin/start-session-bus.sh >>> 253 p1 S+ 0:00.00 grep -c org.finkproject.dbus-session >>> 254 p1 S+ 0:00.01 /sbin/launchd >>> 278 p2 Ss 0:00.04 -csh >>> >>> if i then go back to the first xterm and do ctrl-c processes 250, >>> 251 >>> and 253 are stopped. >>> >>> i would really appreciate any help in understanding what is going >>> on! >>> >>> before the last update to dbus, i had similar behaviour but usually >>> the hang resolved itself in a minute or so. >> >> I think this is a bug in the start-session-bus.sh script: >> >> On 10.4, `launchctl list` usually gives no output at all, and the >> "grep >> -c" command then hangs. Maybe the command >> >> `launchctl list 2>/dev/null | grep -c org.finkproject.dbus-session` >> >> should be replaced by something like >> >> `(echo nothing; launchctl list) 2>/dev/null | grep -c >> org.finkproject.dbus-session` > > Martin, > > 'grep -c' should be able to cope with empty input (returning 0), as > long as you are passing a regex (in this case, > 'org.finkproject.dbus-session'). Are you sure it isn't something else? > > Matthew, > > Just to be sure, what is the output of 'dpkg -l dbus'? Also, what > does 'launchctl list' return? > > - Charles
i get Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half- installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============- ============================================ ii dbus 1.2.12-10 Message bus system for applications and org.finkproject.dbus-session respectively. matt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
